Bob Brown Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.

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

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