We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

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.

I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at the moment, companies are the ones that have this technology - will not use this technology in a way that could adversely affect the people.

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.