I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
BOB BROWNThe government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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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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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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