The future will either be green or not at all.
BOB BROWNWe 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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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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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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