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 Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share
While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by… — David R. Brower Copy Share
Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human… — David R. Brower Copy Share
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is. — David R. Brower Copy Share
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… — David R. Brower Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — David R. Brower Copy Share
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take,… — David R. Brower Copy Share
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… — David R. Brower Copy Share
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. — David R. Brower Copy Share
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… — David R. Brower Copy Share
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! — David R. Brower Copy Share
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated,… — David R. Brower Copy Share
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope. — David R. Brower Copy Share
