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If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.

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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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Drugs
Drug
Reality
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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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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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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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.
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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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 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 wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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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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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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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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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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Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
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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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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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There is no business on a dead planet
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