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We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
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It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively…
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The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation,…
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We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge…
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People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was…
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You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it…
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As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will…
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Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to…
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It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what…
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Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the…
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Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu…
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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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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…
— Vita Sackville-West
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Who would have thought it possible that a tiny flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for…
— Sophie Scholl
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Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of…
— Hugh Prather
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In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which…
— Henri Lebesgue
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It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're…
— Michael C. Hall
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I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a…
— M.C. Escher
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I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to…
— Susan Orlean
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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks,…
— Honore de Balzac
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The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look…
— Wangari Maathai
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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have…
— Will Self
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It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is…
— Donald Miller
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