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David R. Brower

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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Donna Grant

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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Donna Grant

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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Donna Grant

"Having a job does not mean living."

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Donna Grant

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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Donna Grant

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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Donna Grant

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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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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