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.
BOB BROWNThe Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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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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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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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Renewable 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.
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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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