The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWNThe 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?
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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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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 have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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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?
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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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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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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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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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 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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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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