David R. Brower

Quotes by David R. Brower

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Environmentalist · American · 1912–2000

American environmentalist (1912–2000)

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

“There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!”

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

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Place Diversity Agriculture Farming Fuel Beautiful People New Garbage Where Time Energy Seems

“Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.”
— David R. Brower
Diversity Agriculture

“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
Farming Place Fuel

“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.”
— David R. Brower
Beautiful People New

“There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!”
— David R. Brower
Place Garbage Where

“It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.”
— David R. Brower
Time Energy Seems