Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

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.