One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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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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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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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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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I 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.
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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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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 government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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