I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
BOB BROWNI 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.
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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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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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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