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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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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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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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