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.
BOB BROWNI have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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 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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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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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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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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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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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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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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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