David R. Brower People Quotations

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.

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

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

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

If you want to get people off drugs, improve reality.

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'