It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

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.

Why do we have to have people come from afar to come and grow food for us, or to grow food to sell to us? It is partly because we are almost becoming used to people doing things for us. Like somebody else is going to solve that problem for us. And that to me is very disempowering system.

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.

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.