We’ve pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock. David R. Brower Read Quote
The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right. David R. Brower Read Quote
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? David R. Brower Read Quote
I don’t think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system. David R. Brower Read Quote
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? David R. Brower Read Quote
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. David R. Brower Read Quote
At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, ‘You know, we’re having a little problem with waste these days.’ I didn’t know what he meant then, but I know now. David R. Brower Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. David R. Brower Read Quote
