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There is more inside you than you dare think.

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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
Dare
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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
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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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Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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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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While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
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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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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.
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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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