There's A General Culture In This Country

Recognizing That Sustainable Development, Democracy And Peace Are Indivisible Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come... 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 Called To Assist The Earth To Heal Her Wounds And In The Process Heal Our Own - Indeed, To Embrace The Whole Of Creation In All Its Diversity, Beauty And Wonder.

Anybody Can Dig A Hole And Plant A Tree. But Make Sure It Survives. You Have To Nurture It, You Have To Water It, You Have To Keep At It Until It Becomes Rooted So It Can Take Care Or Itself. There Are So Many Enemies Of Trees.

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.

You Have To Know Yourself, And That Once You Know Yourself, Then You Cannot Be Bound By - Because Sometimes We Are Bound By Other People's Thoughts, Because We Are Not Sure About Ourselves. But Once You Know Yourself... I Guess It Is Really An Expression Of The Biblical Statements That The Truth Will Make You Free! When You Know, Then You Are Free, Your Mind Is Free.

The People Are Starving. They Need Food; They Need Medicine; They Need Education. They Do Not Need A Skyscraper To House The Ruling Party And A 24-hour Tv Station.