I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
BOB BROWNI have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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!
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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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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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 calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
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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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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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