The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
BOB BROWNRenewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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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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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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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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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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