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.
David R. BrowerI don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
David R. BrowerWe may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.
David R. BrowerKeep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.
David R. Brower