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01Undated

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

David R. Brower / quote

02Undated

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.

David R. Brower / quote

03Undated

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.

David R. Brower / quote

04Undated

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

David R. Brower / quote

05Undated

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

David R. Brower / quote