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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 water, and make…

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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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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. — Otto von Bismarck
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You… — John Bolton
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture. — Madeleine Albright
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one… — Dale Carnegie
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime. — Honus Wagner
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long… — William Whipple
My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in… — Phil Jackson
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. — Peggy Noonan
I give them experiments and they respond with speeches. — Louis Pasteur
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln

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