Quotes from David R. Brower

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

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

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

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?

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.

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

There is no business on a dead planet

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

There are many ways to salvation, and one of them is to follow a river.