David R. Brower Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?”

“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.”

“It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.”

“Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.”

“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.”

“Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.”

“Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.”

“For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.”

“At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.”

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