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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
David R. Brower
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
David R. Brower
We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
David R. Brower
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
David R. Brower
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
David R. Brower
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
David R. Brower
I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
David R. Brower
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
David R. Brower
