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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.

Bob Brown

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?
BOB BROWN

Environment Lucky Reality
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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Age Billion News Voters
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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Bang People Years
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Dies Green Long
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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Environmental People Positive
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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Chosen Country Learning Money
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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Being Humanity Psychological Resonate Well Yet
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.
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God Mean Men Religious
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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Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
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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Be Good Politically Presumption
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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Future Gun Life Real Security
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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Absorber Shock Want
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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Difficult Kids Thinking
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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Culture Diversity Imagination Nation Positive
The future will either be green or not at all.
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Environmental Future Green
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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Ambition Champion Economics

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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