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
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
There is more inside you than you dare think.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.
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?
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.
Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.