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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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Reality
People
Improve
Drugs

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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
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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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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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Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.
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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
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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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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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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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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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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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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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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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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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We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.
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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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