Bob Brown Quotes

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

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.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

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 future will either be green or not at all.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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?

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.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

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.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

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.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.