There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
“Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.”
“I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.”