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We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I…

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We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively…
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation,…
We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge…
People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was…
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it…
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will…
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to…
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what…
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the…
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu…
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept…

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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live… — Margaret Cho
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free… — Gene Roddenberry
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other… — James Gould Cozzens
All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. — John Henry Jowett
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas… — Thomas Carlyle
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean… — Thomas Huxley
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. — Robert H. Schuller
Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how… — Rajneesh
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