Best David R. Brower Quotes
- Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. All
- It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a… Absolutely
- It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. Energy
- There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! Environmental
- 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 our… Cold
- Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure… Climb
- Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed. Addressed
- There is more inside you than you dare think. Dare
- There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river. Environmental
- 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 them.… Advice
- 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 mind… All
- Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever. Environmental
- A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. Built
- Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. Agriculture
- Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people. Absolutely
- 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… Club
- The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I… Club
- Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom. Absolutely
- I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away… Actually Telling
- There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify… Base
- Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. Each
- Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. All
- When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle. Handle
- True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but… Afoot
- The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we. Began