Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
BOB BROWNOur 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.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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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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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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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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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.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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