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- We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
- We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change…
- Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that…
- We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation…
- It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in…
- Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue…
- All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It…
- We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
- If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and…
- We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are…
- 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…
- All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
- 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…
- When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are…
- For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes…
- When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet…
- Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are…
- Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide