Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
BOB BROWNAs a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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 will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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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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