"We are at the edge of an abyss……" — David R. Brower

"We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost."

— David R. Brower

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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…
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific.…
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're…
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…
I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today,…
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept…
Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in…
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, 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…

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — HonorÈ De Balzac
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective… — Tammy Bruce
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies… — Joseph Campbell
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity. — Sally-Ann Roberts
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged… — Lewis Mumford
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come… — Felix Dennis
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure… — A. E. Housman
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand… — Winston Churchill
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those… — Bertolt Brecht
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the… — Thomas Huxley

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