Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

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.

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.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

We don't experience the world. We experience our thoughts and think that's the world.

Modesty has, and will remain, an alluring trait because where egoism falters, humility conquers.

The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.