Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property. The law has come a long way in favor of the woman, but it is the tradition, the attitudes, that we often have to fight.

What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can get tested and access drugs. So I just hope that those who can will make those drugs available.

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.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

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.

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