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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.
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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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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Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
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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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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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We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
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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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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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