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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.
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 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 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 must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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