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"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."
"There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't."
"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."
"Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"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 wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it...our psychological beings resonate with it."
"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."