Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

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

Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.

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

What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when you learn something from other people, then you keep moving onward for yourself.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

First of all, farmers should work with universities and research institutions in the country, and hopefully with the government.