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"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
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"We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met."
"Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!"
"We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes."
"We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our world at least for a little time."
"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence."
"This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody."
"Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."
"Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year."
"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
"Whenever they are given the choice, some people choose a bath over a shower; they, too, would like to do their bit to waste water."
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"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
"African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence."
"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that."
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