David R. Brower
David R. Brower
David Ross Browerwas a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute, North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969, he served as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and served on its board three times: from 1941–1953; 1983–1988; and 1995–2000. As a younger man, he was a prominent mountaineer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth1 July 1912
CountryUnited States of America
Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.
Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
There is more inside you than you dare think.
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 mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.