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…
• Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the…
• 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…
• 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…
• There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I say..…
• Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the…
• So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
• The future will either be green or not at all.
• There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
• Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that…
• Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.
• For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
• I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
• I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
• I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

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