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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.
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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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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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.
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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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
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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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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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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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 believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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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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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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
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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
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
David R. Brower
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
David R. Brower
