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.
BOB BROWNYet 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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 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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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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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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When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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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