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It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
David R. Brower
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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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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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