Conservation Policy Quotes by David R. Brower

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

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

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

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

— 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…

— David R. Brower

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

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

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

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

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

— David R. Brower

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

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

— David R. Brower