List of David R. Brower Quotes

People Have Alleged That I Have Inspired Many Young People Over The Years, But I Say, It Was Just The Opposite.

Perhaps We'll Realize That Each Of Us Has Not One Vote But Ten Thousand Or A Million.

There Are Many Different Kinds Of Radioactive Waste And Each Has Its Own Half-life So, Just To Be On The Safe Side And To Simplify Matters, I Base My Calculations On The Worst One And That's Plutonium.

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.

Until Four Years Ago, In Fact, I Was Absolutely In Love With The Atom.

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.

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.

A Great Deal Of Pressure Was Then Built Up To Remove Me From The Club And My Resignation Was, Finally, A Forced One.

The Risk Presented By These Lethal Wastes Is Like No Other Risk, And We Should Not Be Expected To Accept It Or To Project It Into The Future In Order For Manufacturers And Utilities To Make A Dollar Killing Now.

Some Otherwise Sane Scientists Have Seriously Proposed That We Tuck This Deadly Garbage Under The Edges Of Drifting Continents But How Can They Be Sure The Moving Land Masses Will Climb Over The Waste And Not Just Push It Forward?

For How Many People Do You Think Might Yet Stand On This Planet Before The Sun Grows Cold? That's The Responsibility We Hold In Our Hands.

Understanding How Dna Transmits All It Knows About Cancer, Physics, Dreaming And Love Will Keep Man Searching For Some Time.