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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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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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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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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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 still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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