98 Quotes by David R. Brower

There is no business on a dead planet

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

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.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

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.

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.

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field.

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.