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.

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

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.

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

In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.

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.

Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.