The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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 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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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 didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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 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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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