When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
BOB BROWNRenewable 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
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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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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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 have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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