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Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Agriculture Back Bring Diversity First First Place Made Place Work

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We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Abyss Being Close Edge Lost

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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

Topics: Began Brings Countries Earth Found Friends Helping Here Institute John Organizations Other Other Countries Present Pretty Started Then Up Us Well Working

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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

Topics: Actually Atom Away Beautiful Could Dam Enter Era Need New New Era Our People Power Streams Telling Unlimited Would

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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

Topics: Atomic Committee Days Energy Having He Joint Know Little Meant Now Problem Quietly Rather Said Senator Then Time Waste Who You

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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

Topics: Allowing Consumption Convenience Energy Energy Consumption Every Exposing Generation Generations Hazard Lethal Luxury Major Minor Next Present Waste Worth Years

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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

Topics: After Club Conservation Earth Founded Friends Hand Kept League Plank Sierra Sort Voters Walked Work Writing

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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

Topics: Built Club Deal Finally Forced Great Great Deal Me Pressure Remove Resignation Then Up

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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

Topics: Club Conservation Doing Fact Faster Force Good Growing Grown Left Matter Must Powerful Powerful Force Right Sierra Since Something Than Very While

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Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Absolutely Atom Fact Four In Fact Love Until Years Years Ago

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: July 1st, 1912

Died: November 5th, 2000

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