Some Quotable Quotes to ponder!!!
“If we give our very best to all the children of today, and if we pass on our planet in the fullness of her beauty and natural richness, we will be serving the children of the future”.
“In a world beset by conflict and division, peace is one of the cornerstones of the future”.
Nelson Mandela, Madiba and Father of South Africa
“Your future and mine does not lie in fear-ridden division, but in fearless co-existance”
Dr Anton Rupert, global industrialist, philanthropist and visionary
“The great red hills stand desolate, and the earth has torn away like flesh. The lightning flashes over them, and the clouds pour down upon them, the dead streams come to life, full of the red blood of the earth. Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man. They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and girls are away. The soil cannot keep them anymore.”
Alan Paton, Author of Cry the Beloved Country
“People often ask: what has Africa given the world? There is a simple answer. Africa gave the world humanity, and that is no small thing”.
Phillip Tobias, Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught”
Baba Dioum, Senegalese Conservationist