I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
BOB BROWNWilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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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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