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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 39 quotes by David R. Brower David Ross Brower (/ˈbraʊər/; July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969, he served as the first Executive Director of the... Read full biography of David R. Brower → 1 2 3 Ctrl → We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the... → 0 The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the... → 0 We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. 0 A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. 0 It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition... → 0 There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! 0 Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on... → 0 Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of... → 0 It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. 0 I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our... → 0 Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be... → 0 It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. 0 Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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