I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
BOB BROWNWe 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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