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?
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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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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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 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 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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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 have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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