David R. Brower Quotes


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


What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' - David R. Brower


What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? - David R. Brower


We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock. - David R. Brower


We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. - David R. Brower


We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open. - David R. Brower


We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. - David R. Brower


Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom. - David R. Brower


Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. - David R. Brower


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