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David R. Brower quotes

American Ecologist July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000

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We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. David R. Brower
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now. David R. Brower
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
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. David R. Brower
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
David R. Brower quote: "Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work..."
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. David R. Brower
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. David R. Brower
It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible. David R. Brower
David R. Brower quote: "We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters..."
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open. David R. Brower
What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' David R. Brower
David R. Brower quote: "Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled..."
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem. 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
David R. Brower quote: "When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just..."
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
Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground. David R. Brower
David R. Brower quote: "A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from..."
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. David R. Brower

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