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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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.…

— David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

— David R. Brower

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

— David R. Brower

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out…

— David R. Brower

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

— David R. Brower

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that…

— David R. Brower

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

— David R. Brower

I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then…

— David R. Brower

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in…

— David R. Brower

There is no business on a dead planet

— David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

— David R. Brower

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to…

— David R. Brower

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.

— David R. Brower

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or…

— David R. Brower

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we…

— David R. Brower