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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
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Berkeley
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David Ross Brower
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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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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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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.
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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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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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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
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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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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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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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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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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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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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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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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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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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Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
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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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