Quote

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

David R. Brower

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Impossible
Stills
Still
Conservationists
Need
Achieving
Needs
Attempt
Aware
Aren
Achieve

More quotes by David R. Brower

Image
There is no business on a dead planet
David R. Brower
Image
If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
David R. Brower
Image
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
David R. Brower
Image
We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
David R. Brower
Image
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
David R. Brower
Image
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
David R. Brower
Image
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
David R. Brower
Image
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
David R. Brower
Image
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
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.
David R. Brower
Image
There is more inside you than you dare think.
David R. Brower
Image
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
David R. Brower