賽考斯（Ronald Sakolsky），美國退休教師，資助殷玉珍毛烏素沙地治沙二十多年。
FAO大會「農業糧食體系與農村發展百位巾幗英雄」頒獎特別活動，
Our story was written long before we met. Many people keep asking what comes next. I answer in Chinese: it is fate. I do not know what chapters are still to be written. But she planted seeds of hope. Those tiny saplings have grown into giant trees, more than fifty thousand of them.
And now our own story has also planted a seed of hope in the heart of every person listening today.
I say to every person who hears my voice and sees my face: plant just one tree. Only one.
Imagine if millions upon millions of people across our planet planted a single tree. From South Africa, from every corner of Africa, Europe, Asia — every continent, except Antarctica, that beautiful continent.
Imagine this: if every person could step outside their door, in their backyard, in a park, and plant one tree. How wonderful our world would become.
When I first visited the Mu Us Sandy Land, there was nothing but sand. Today it is lush and green. Those trees are like our children, waving to us in the forest.
Yuzhen and I speak different languages, we look different, yet we are like brother and sister, we understand one another. We are here to build a bridge across nations, for all of us to protect our shared home, this one Earth. This Earth does not belong only to China, nor only to the United States. It belongs to all humanity.
If we fail to protect Mother Earth, she cannot keep giving us our fruits, our flowers, the clean air we breathe.
