David Brower

“We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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