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I Think That For Anybody Who Has Worked In The Civil Society, Government Bureaucracy Moves Very Very Slowly.

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 Their Needs, There Was Nothing Beyond That. I Did Not See All The Issues That I Have To Come To Deal With.

When People Can't Use You, They Ridicule What You Represent. I Was Lucky That I Understood That, Because When One Does Not Understand That, It Is Very Easy To Be Broken And To Be Subdued.

We Can Work Together For A Better World With Men And Women Of Goodwill, Those Who Radiate The Intrinsic Goodness Of Humankind. To Do So Effectively, The World Needs A Global Ethic With Values Which Give Meaning To Life Experiences And, More Than Religious Institutions And Dogmas, Sustain The Non-material Dimension Of Humanity. Mankind's Universal Values Of Love, Compassion, Solidarity, Caring And Tolerance Should Form The Basis For This Global Ethic Which Should Permeate Culture, Politics, Trade, Religion And Philosophy. It Should Also Permeate The Extended Family Of The United Nations.

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 Are In A Position To Understand What Is Being Lost. The Future Of The Planet Concerns All Of Us, And All Of Us Should Do What We Can To Protect It. As I Told The Foresters, And The Women, You Don't Need A Diploma To Plant A Tree.