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.
BOB BROWNThe future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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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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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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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