The little grassroots people can change this world.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the tragedy of when they fail, because we are dealing with life systems, and when we hear that a species has become extinct, or is threatened, you realize that this could mean that this species will disappear from the face of the earth forever! So that understanding really gives you energy to do something to save it.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

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.