You Can Make A Lot Of Speeches,

When You Think Of All The Conflicts We Have - Whether Those Conflicts Are Local, Whether They Are Regional Or Global - These Conflicts Are Often Over The Management, The Distribution Of Resources. If These Resources Are Very Valuable, If These Resources Are Scarce, If These Resources Are Degraded, There Is Going To Be Competition.

What People See As Fearlessness Is Really Persistence. Because I Am Focused On The Solution, I Don't See The Danger.

Sometimes When I Talk To Little Children I Remind Them Of The Fact That When I Was Growing Up Myself, I Used To Play With Frog Eggs And Tadpoles And I Used To Walk In The Field, I Used To Literally Copy Whatever My Mother Was Doing On The Land. And That May Be The Reason Why I Eventually Developed The Passion For Green And For The Earth. So It Is Extremely Important For Adults And Especially Those Who Are In Charge Of Cities To Make Sure That We Do Not Lose Touch With The Land And With The Environment. And Especially Our Children.

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.

But When You Have Bad Governance, Of Course, These Resources Are Destroyed: The Forests Are Deforested, There Is Illegal Logging, There Is Soil Erosion. I Got Pulled Deeper And Deeper And Saw How These Issues Become Linked To Governance, To Corruption, To Dictatorship.