David R. Brower Quotes

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• All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by…
• Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling…
• At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with…
• It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
• 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…
• 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 our…
• The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it…
• Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots…
• The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the…
• Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
• All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
• What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology…
• I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it…
• Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing…
• We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....
• Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand…
• To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
• The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
• 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,…
• There is no business on a dead planet

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