Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
BOB BROWNReal life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
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Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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