"Without wilderness, the world's a cage." — David R. Brower
"Without wilderness, the world's a cage."
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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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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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More Cage Quotes
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
— Harry Belafonte
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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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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name…
— Nicolas Cage
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the…
— Will Arnett
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
— James A. Baldwin
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we…
— Mike Tyson
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I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no…
— John Bunyan
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On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping…
— Kate Beckinsale
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