"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."

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"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."

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"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."

Nation, Country, Culture, Trees

"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that."

Time, God, Doubt, Living

"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment."

Development, Environment

"African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence."

Strength, Women, Fear, African

"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."

Death, Life, Country, Man

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."

Peace, Conflict, Connection, Democracy

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."

Time, Women, Children, Waste

"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."

Environment,

"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."

Environment, Poor

"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."

Difference, Trees, Will

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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, Idea

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, People, Detail, Painting

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, Work, Soul, Grace

"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Creativity, Work, People

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, Art, Life, Purpose

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Creativity, Work, Art, Heart, First

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Creativity, End, Writing

"One must act in painting as in life, directly."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

Creativity, Life, Act, Painting

"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Creativity, Exercise, Fantasy, Mind, Wrong

"Art is the objectification of feeling."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Creativity, Art, Feeling