Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. — 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
