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I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

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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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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We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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