David R. Brower Quotes

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

David R. Brower

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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

Parker Stevenson
- Want
- Stand
- Strangers
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Long
- Country
- High
It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

Natalia Makarova
- Done
- Perfect
- Proud
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

Fanny Howe
- Street
- Over
- Bar
I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- Right
- Got
- Hipster
On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

Wendy Kopp
- Experience
- Nature
- Know