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David R. Brower
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
David R. Brower
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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?
David R. Brower
I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor.
David R. Brower
I went in the back door and was an editor of the University of California Press for eleven years, with time out for World War II.
David R. Brower
I was born in Berkeley, California 60 years ago and I dropped out of college in my sophomore year. The rest of my education came a little more slowly.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
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.
David R. Brower
I 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.