I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWNSo far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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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When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
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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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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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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 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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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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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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