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.
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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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 have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
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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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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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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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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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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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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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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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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 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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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.
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