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
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.
Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.
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 as we received it.
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.
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?
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
There is no business on a dead planet
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.
I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.
If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.