Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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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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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 am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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