"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."

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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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"I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time."

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"A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy."

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"People decided that trees have no feelings."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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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