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.
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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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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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 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 didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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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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