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Culture is coded wisdom
When you know who you are you are free.
We can love ourselves by loving the earth.
The little grassroots people can change this world.
There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.
We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.
We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.
The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.
Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.
Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable.
All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.
Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.
People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.
I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.
So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.