There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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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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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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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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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 government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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