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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.
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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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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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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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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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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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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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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