I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
BOB BROWNWe 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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