"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, American Environmentalist

Living, Man

5

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Living quotes

"Use your knowledge and physical strength. You have the opportunity today, start living for Him."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Living, God, Strength, Action

"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"

Nicholson Baker, American Novelist

Living, Worry

"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Living,

"Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!"

Ryan Phillippe, American Actor

Living, Shadow, Want

"It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living."

Dave Thomas, American Businessman

Living,

"A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it."

Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher

Living, Multiplicity

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

David Bowie, English Musician

Living, Man, Potential

"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."

Sting, British Musician

Living, Writing

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Living, Possessions

"I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns."

Jules Massenet, French Composer

Living, Occupations, Poor, Stars

Explore more quotes by David R. Brower

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

Love

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

Work

"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

"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."

Country

"It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it."

Time

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

Being

"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."

Energy

"I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system."

Thinking

"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."

Future

"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?"

Energy