"Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not,……" — 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 raft rivers understand this."
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60 Quotes by David R. Brower
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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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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
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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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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
— Mary J. Blige
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up…
— Julie Burchill
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
— Michael Caine
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb…
— Zig Ziglar
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When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
— Confucius
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Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit…
— Yvon Chouinard
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