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.
BOB BROWNI have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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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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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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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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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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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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 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 have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
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