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. David R. Brower More Quotes by David R. Brower More Quotes From David R. Brower We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. David R. Brower water-of-life nature thinking We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children. David R. Brower parent earth children I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible David R. Brower young impossible people The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we. David R. Brower wild-places nature ends Without wilderness, the world's a cage. David R. Brower wilderness cages world Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. David R. Brower passion winning art 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. David R. Brower agriculture machines fuel Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this. David R. Brower luck memorable rivers If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality. David R. Brower drug reality people We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is. David R. Brower achieve impossible needs There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river. David R. Brower environmental rivers way All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent David R. Brower innocent guilty technology Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing. David R. Brower government historical parent Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow. David R. Brower blow wind jobs Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground. David R. Brower scar mark earth It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. David R. Brower environmental wrecks energy To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage. David R. Brower technology flow world There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! David R. Brower garbage stores environmental Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever. David R. Brower forever rivers running Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. David R. Brower agriculture diversity firsts
