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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
Cinematographer
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
Ski Mountaineer
Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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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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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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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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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
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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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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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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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