I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
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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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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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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For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
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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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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 didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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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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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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