"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, American Environmentalist

People, Thoughts, Being, Trying

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

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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."

Power

"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."

People

"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."

May

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

Being

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

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"It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible."

People

"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."

Energy

"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."

Time

"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."

Work