We can love ourselves by loving the earth.

I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.

So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

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.