The future will either be green or not at all.
BOB BROWNThe government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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 are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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