"It's like turning the space program over to……" — David R. Brower
"It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad."
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60 Quotes by David R. Brower
David R. Brower has 60 quotes on this site.
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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption…
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific.…
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At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're…
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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and…
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today,…
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept…
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Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in…
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the…
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Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
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All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
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What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and…
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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the…
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More Island Quotes
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Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are…
— Gerry Adams
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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
— Dave Barry
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of…
— Aneurin Bevan
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible…
— Bono
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Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West,…
— Jimmy Buffett
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Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like…
— Nicolas Cage
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more…
— David Cameron
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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I…
— Jane Campion
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When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.
— Paul Cellucci
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on…
— Winston Churchill
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Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant'…
— Criss Angel
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away…
— Francesca Annis
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