Culture Is Coded Wisdom

When We Plant Trees, We Plant The Seeds Of Peace And Seeds Of Hope.

African Women In General Need To Know That It's Ok For Them To Be The Way They Are - To See The Way They Are As A Strength, And To Be Liberated From Fear And From Silence.

One Of The Reasons Why We Started The Green Belt Movement Is To Work With These Ordinary Peasant Farmers So As To Educate Them That, Despite The Fact That They Are Poor, It Is In Their Interest To Protect The Soil That They Have, To Protect The Forest They Have, To Protect The Land That They Have, Because If They Don't Do It, Things Can Be Only Worse Tomorrow For Them For Them And For Their Children.

The Issue Of Climate Change, It Really Does Bring Home The Fact That We Are On One Planet, And That Some Of The Impact Of What Human Beings Do In One Corner Of The World Is Going To Affect People In A Distant Corner Of The World. So We May Still Feel Very Far From Each Other, But We Are Really Very Close To Each Other Because Of The Changes We Have Made With Travel And Technology And Especially The Information Technology.

It Is Evident That Many Wars Are Fought Over Resources Which Are Now Becoming Increasingly Scarce. If We Conserved Our Resources Better, Fighting Over Them Would Not Occur ... Protecting The Global Environment Is Directly Related To Securing Peace. Those Of Us Who Understand The Complex Concept Of The Environment Have The Burden To Act. We Must Not Tire, We Must Not Give Up, We Must Persist.