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It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Island Like Long Long Island Over Program Railroad Space Space Program Turning

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'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Anyone Bad Loaded Me Realistic Uses Who Word

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When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

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Topics: Being Handle Just Otherwise People People Say Realistic Say Some Tag Thoughts Trying You

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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

Topics: Big Chemicals Farming Fertilizer First First Place Fuel Knock Machines Made Mechanism More Out Pesticides Place Pour Work

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What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'

~David R. Brower

Topics: Depend Doing Even Hide Instance Labels Miracle More Much Off Out People Plant Public Say Ship Strip Too Too Much Unsettling Watch Way Wheat

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I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Actually Average Believe Consumption Cost Cutting Deal Drastically Energy Energy Consumption Fact Find Give Giving Great Great Deal Guy He In Fact Living May Our Raising Really Standard Street Understands Up While Will I Believe I Believe That

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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

Topics: Amount Apart Applying Back Began Energy Environment Exactly Got Industrial Industrial Revolution Known Landmark Last Our Revolution Safe Say Search Start Tearing Think Tools Vast Where Which I Think

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Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

~David R. Brower

Topics: Each Million Perhaps Realize Ten Thousand Us Vote

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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

Topics: Before Cold Grows Hands Hold How How Many People Many Might Our People Planet Responsibility Stand Sun Think You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: July 1st, 1912

Died: November 5th, 2000

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