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David R. Brower quotes about earth

American Ecologist July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000

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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. 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
David R. Brower quote: "We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it..."
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. David R. Brower
Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground. David R. Brower
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field. David R. Brower

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