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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.
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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Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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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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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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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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 still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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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.
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