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.
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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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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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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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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