Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earth

ISBN-10: 1981811419
ISBN-13: 9781981811410
Pages: 210
Language: English
Published: 2017-12-16
Author: David Brower

Description

As a climber, David Brower scaled many previously "insurmountable" mountains. As a conservationist, Brower has brought a mountaineer's determination and reverence for nature to his efforts to protect the Earth and educate its human inhabitants. He has kept dams out of the Grand Canyon and loggers out of Olympic National Park, established the National Wilderness Preservation System, added seven new regions to the National Park System, and helped to foster a mind-set that questions careless growth.In Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run, the "archdruid" of modern environmentalism, the man The New York Times designated the most effective conservation activist in the world, offers a tough, witty, and impassioned game plan "for those who would save the Earth." Now eighty-two years old, Brower also recounts the highs and lows of his controversial career, sparing no politician or public figure, least of all himself. He frankly discusses his mistakes, such as compromising on the construction of Glen Canyon Dam, and the strategic flourishes that have earned him both fans and foes, including the full-page, in-your-face national newspaper ads that helped save the Grand Canyon by asking, "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel so that tourists can get a better look at the ceiling?"__________"Delightful . . . Brower's vignettes offer Zen-like wisdom."--San Francisco Chronicle"This is the testament of one of the few authentic sages of our time. Brower's voice is passionate, perfectly cadenced, humorous, and very wise. And original: while most writers point to where we are, this one draws the map."--Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard, and the author of The Diversity of Life, Half Earth, and The Meaning of Human Existence."David Brower has for many years been a force of nature, drawing us to see the natural world as nurturer, teacher, inspirer, and partner. [He has] been the pathbreaker, not given to easy answers or ruinous compromises. . . a man of great insight who cares deeply for his world."--President Jimmy Carter"Brower is on the short list of people who transformed the 20th Century . . . the man who turned conservationism into environmentalism who took the insights of Rachael Carson and built from them a powerful idea that may yet tranform the planet."--Bill McKibben, 350.org and author of The End of Nature"It is the best distillation of the Brower philosophy yet in print"-Tom Turner, DAVID BROWER: The Making of the Environmental Movement.Steve Chapple is the author of the New York Times Notable Book, Kayaking the Full Moon: A Journey Down the Yellowstone River to the Soul of Montana, and co-author with Jeremy Jackson of BREAKPOINT: Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises (Yale University Press.)