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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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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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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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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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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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
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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.
David R. Brower
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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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