So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
BOB BROWNFor 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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Renewable 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.
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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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 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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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