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Obituary: David Brower

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20001109
Author:Richard D. North

A NOTORIOUS curmudgeon, David Brower, the founder of Friends of the Earth, was in a long tradition of American admirers and defenders of wilderness.

He was the heir of men like Henry David Thoreau (on the sedentary side) and of the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (on the side which was more obviously his: the extremely active). But it was John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, which Brower would go on to lead for a period beginning in 1952, and to argue with all his life, whose ethic and style defined his lifelong approach to conservation.

Brower fought for 20 years to keep ...

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