I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
BOB BROWNI 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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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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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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