98 Quotes by David R. Brower

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in ’52, walked the plank there in ’69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

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

I’m always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it’s impossible.

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

Without wilderness, the world’s a cage.

When people say, ‘You’re not being realistic,’ they’re just trying to tag some thoughts that they can’t otherwise handle.

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.

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

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