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
While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.
I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
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.
Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.
The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.
If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.
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 beautiful streams.
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.