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David R. Brower

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.
— David R. Brower work
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.
— David R. Brower space
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
— David R. Brower great
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
— David R. Brower growth
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
— David R. Brower time
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 sin
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
— David R. Brower age
We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
— David R. Brower lost
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
— David R. Brower you
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 living
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?
— David R. Brower war
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 art
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 people
Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.
— David R. Brower real
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
— David R. Brower people
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
— David R. Brower people
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
— David R. Brower work
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.
— David R. Brower time
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.
— David R. Brower people
Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
— David R. Brower love
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
— David R. Brower love
I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
— David R. Brower art
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 people
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
— David R. Brower age
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.
— David R. Brower power

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