When We Plant Trees, We Plant The

Now When Nile Perch Was Introduced [into Lake Victoria], I Don't Think Enough Research Was Done; Maybe It Was Done, Maybe It Was Not. But Nile Perch Is A Huge Fish. So It Ate All The Little Fish, And It Grew Into A Monster Which The Local People Could Not Fish With Their Little Boats And Their Little Nets.

Sometimes When I Talk To Little Children I Remind Them Of The Fact That When I Was Growing Up Myself, I Used To Play With Frog Eggs And Tadpoles And I Used To Walk In The Field, I Used To Literally Copy Whatever My Mother Was Doing On The Land. And That May Be The Reason Why I Eventually Developed The Passion For Green And For The Earth. So It Is Extremely Important For Adults And Especially Those Who Are In Charge Of Cities To Make Sure That We Do Not Lose Touch With The Land And With The Environment. And Especially Our Children.

The Women Of The Green Belt Movement Have Learned About The Causes And The Symptoms Of Environmental Degradation. They Have Begun To Appreciate That They, Rather Than Their Government, Ought To Be The Custodians Of The Environment.

People Are Dynamic. They Change, And Soon As There Are Enough Of You, Things Change [for A Whole Society].

I Learned In America A Long Time Ago, The Three R's, The Principle Of Three R's - Reuse, Reduce, Recycle. And As I Say Those Words, There Are So Many Things Individually We Can Do To Reduce - We Don't Need To Consume As Much As We Are Consuming. Reduce. And By Reusing, We Can Reuse A Lot Of Things We Just Throw Into The Dumpsite. And Reduce The Production. The More We Reuse, The More We Can Reduce.