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David R. Brower

"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?"

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"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?"

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Donna Grant

"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."

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Donna Grant

"In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king."

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Donna Grant

"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

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Donna Grant

"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."

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Donna Grant

"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."

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Donna Grant

"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."

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Donna Grant

"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

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Donna Grant

"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers."

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Donna Grant

"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

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Donna Grant

"This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land."

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David R. Brower
"They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery."

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David R. Brower
"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."

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David R. Brower
"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?"

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David R. Brower
"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."

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David R. Brower
"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."

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David R. Brower
"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."

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David R. Brower
"Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem."

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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."

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David R. Brower
"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."

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

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