David R. Brower Quotes

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

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.

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.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

There is more inside you than you dare think.