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.
BOB BROWNThere’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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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 didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
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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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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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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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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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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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The future will either be green or not at all.
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
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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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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 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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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 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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