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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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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 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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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 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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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
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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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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 goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
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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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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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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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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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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People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
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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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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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