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I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.
David R. Brower
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David R. Brower
Age: 88 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 1
Died: 2000
Died: November 5
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Environmentalist
Mountaineer
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Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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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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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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