“I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could...” — David R. Brower Quote

“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.”

“I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.”

“Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.”

“We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.”

“Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.”

“Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.”