Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. David R. Brower More Quotes by David R. Brower More Quotes From David R. Brower Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. David R. Brower agriculture diversity firsts There is no business on a dead planet David R. Brower economics business management If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction. David R. Brower population mountain trying There is more inside you than you dare think. David R. Brower dare healing thinking 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? David R. Brower luxury energy years 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. David R. Brower wilderness nature real We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in. David R. Brower sea world needs If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape. David R. Brower planets ifs looks 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. David R. Brower heritage protect men We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn. David R. Brower wild-places goes-on water Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine. David R. Brower heal hurt men Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. David R. Brower suggestions generations thinking Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad. David R. Brower loaded realistic use When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle. David R. Brower being-real trying people 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. David R. Brower giving-up cutting believe You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy. David R. Brower conservation policy population 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. David R. Brower growth technology goes-on 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. David R. Brower rockets space earth Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself. David R. Brower depressing fun world 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. David R. Brower records political thinking
