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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
