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.

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

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

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