Programming 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