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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

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David R. Brower
Age: 88 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 1
Died: 2000
Died: November 5
Cinematographer
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Ski Mountaineer
Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
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There is no business on a dead planet
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Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
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We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.
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You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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