Bob Brown > Quotes

“We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong.”
― Robert James Brown

“when 1500 scientists, including 100 Nobel Laureates, petitioned the world in 1995 that serious remedies were required to halt the destruction of the living fabric of the Earth, their warning was ignored. Had it been 1500 economists warning of a stock market crash it would have got banner headlines and emergency government action.”
― Robert James Brown, Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action

“Worse is coming. Materialism, the prevailing religion of the world, the motivator of nations, adores greater consumption.”
― Bob Brown, Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action

“The roar of the falls echoed in my mind and, in the quiet of the wilderness evening, I went happily to sleep on Earth.”
― Robert James Brown, Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action

“In the court of global public opinion, and in the annals of environmental history, Captain Watson will be a champion long after the last Japanese factory ship finds its resting place in the museum of selfish disregard for the living Earth upon which we all depend.”
― Robert James Brown, Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action

“(according to the rules of NPC, one must not refer to the right-wing disrupters as radicals, whether they are in Hobart Town Hall or outside Parliament House in Canberra under banners reading ‘Julia Gillard: Bob Brown’s Bitch’)”
― Robert James Brown, Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action