The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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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 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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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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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