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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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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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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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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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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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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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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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.
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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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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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 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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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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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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