The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
BOB BROWNI will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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 have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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