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David R. Brower
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
David R. Brower
What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'
David R. Brower
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
David R. Brower
Well, as the Welshman Allen Reese puts it, 'At the edge of the abyss the only progressive move you can make is to step back.'
David R. Brower
We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock.
David R. Brower
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
David R. Brower
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
David R. Brower
We might peer into the future at the generations yet unborn and ask ourselves if we're really trustworthy custodians of their heritage. Do we have the right to tell them that they can never see a whale?
David R. Brower
We don't need all those dangers. The additional energy isn't worth it. The breeder program should be forgotten stopped!
David R. Brower
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.