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David R. Brower Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: environmentalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1912 - November 5, 2000

Topics

Power Beautiful People New Need Era

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

Joel Embiid

Good Enough Kind Never Ball Playing

On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.

Jeff Buckley

Face Think You Look See Still

Michael Bastian is a designer line and priced a certain way because of where it's made and the materials we use, and Gant is the more accessible version of that: more sports-inspired, more branding. It has the same DNA; it's just a different time and place.

Michael Bastian

Time Place Way DNA More Line

I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks.

Sue Hubbell

Texas Country New Island Farming

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

Steve-O

Great Myself Spiritual Suffering

Being is like pretending.

Mira Sorvino

Pretending Being Like

I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they're just good, kind-hearted people.

Milo Ventimiglia

Family Good Father Mother People

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Dennis Prager

Happy People You Lazy Wiser Become

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Colin Quinn

Alone Strong Feel You Look Hand

Lesli Glatter directed an episode of 'Mad Men' and then came in to direct an episode of 'House.' And she didn't recognize me at all.

Anne Dudek

Men Me House Mad She Recognize

My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Paulo Coelho

Day Me You Say Understand They Say

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.

Scott Foley

Beautiful Architecture Think Warm