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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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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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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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I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
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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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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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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 may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
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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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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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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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