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We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

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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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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You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.
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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
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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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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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