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

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

There is no reason why a company like Monsanto, for example, that is pushing GMOs, cannot go to Kenya, partner with the university, partner with the research institutions, and try to promote - in a responsible way - advanced techniques to help farmers. But this should be done in such a way that the farmers' livelihoods are not undermined because the government is irresponsible or careless, or because it is compromised.

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

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.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.