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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.

Bob Brown

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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.
BOB BROWN

Children Dollar Money Sunken War
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
BOB BROWN

Action Democracy Earth
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.
BOB BROWN

Environmental People Positive
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.
BOB BROWN

Environmental Innovation Technology
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.
BOB BROWN

Black Breakfast Coffee Cream Filled
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.
BOB BROWN

God Mean Men Religious
The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWN

Clouds Government Land
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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Culture Diversity Imagination Nation Positive
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 BROWN

Flower Forests Wall
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.
BOB BROWN

Age Earth Past Resulting Together
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWN

Absorber Shock Want
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.
BOB BROWN

Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
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.
BOB BROWN

Chosen Country Learning Money
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.
BOB BROWN

Bodies Fashion Left Resonate Shopping
The future will either be green or not at all.
BOB BROWN

Environmental Future Green
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
BOB BROWN

Community Democracy Depth

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