Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by David R. Brower - Page 2

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

There is more inside you than you dare think.

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

Overpopulation is perhaps the biggest problem facing us, and immigration is part of that problem. It has to be addressed.

I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.

The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope.

Keep your rivers flowing as they will, and you will continue to know the most important of all freedoms-the boundless scope of the human mind to contemplate wonders, and to begin to understand their meaning.

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

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.