Bob Brown Quotes

The future will either be green or not at all.

Bob Brown

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• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Different
  • Important
  • May

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• Predictions are preposterous.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Future
  • Predictions

• It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Future
  • Think
  • Dream

• I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

  

  Yuna
  • Family
  • Future
  • Start

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Future
  • Daily
  • Architecture

• The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Future
  • Man
  • Dog

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• The future is now.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Future
  • Now

• All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Future
  • Free
  • Democracy

• The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Green
  • Difference

• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Future
  • Human
  • Promises

• I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • World
  • Children
  • Help

• If rape, poison, daggers, arsonHave not yet embroidered with their pleasing designsThe banal canvas of our pitiable lives,It is because our souls have not enough boldness.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Canvas

• Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Stop
  • Blessed

• A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self - in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Mirror

• The future will either be green or not at all.

  

  Bob Brown
  • Future
  • Green