David R. Brower Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

  David R. Brower

  Art, Passion, Winning

• Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

  David R. Brower

  Earth, Scar, Mark

  "Today’s Environmental Activists Stand on David Brower’s Shoulders" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

• We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

  David R. Brower

  Children, Parent, Earth

• 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

  Trying, Mountain, Population

• 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.

  David R. Brower

  Country, Organization, Here And There

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

  David R. Brower

  Compassion, Earth, May

  David Ross Brower, John R. McGuire, Thomas L. Kimball (1981). “Wildlife: The Real Test of Environmental Quality”

• 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

  Space, Earth, Rockets

• We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.

  David R. Brower

  Wild Places, Water, Goes On

• 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.

  David R. Brower

  Writing, Hands, League

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