David Brower Quotes

“We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.”

“The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If she could walk away, she would; her pride demanded at least that much from her. But Quincy knew that her heart beat with the rhythm of the presses in the back room, that her blood ran black with ink, and that her mind filled with reams of numbers and projections and plans. The Q was Quincy's only vital organ, so she would play the game.”

“It is one of the great arts of the human soul," Ezekiel said to himself. Her hand on the door, Quincy shifted and looked back at her uncle's profile. "What is?""Staying with someone. Companionship is one of the great arts of the human soul.”