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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
Creatures
Rights
Believe
Men

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The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
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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 may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
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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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There is more inside you than you dare think.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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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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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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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