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.
BOB BROWNOne-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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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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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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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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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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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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