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David R. Brower quotes

American Ecologist July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000

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David R. Brower quote: "Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer,..."
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. David R. Brower
David R. Brower quote: "Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with..."
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom. David R. Brower
David R. Brower quote: "We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a..."
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. David R. Brower
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
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. David R. Brower
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
If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too... David R. Brower
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
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. David R. Brower
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? David R. Brower
It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it. David R. Brower
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now. David R. Brower
David R. Brower quote: "It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we..."
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. David R. Brower
David R. Brower quote: "We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and..."
We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in. David R. Brower
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. David R. Brower

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