Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
BOB BROWNFor comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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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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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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