Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees. Felix Houphouet-Boigny More Quotes by Felix Houphouet-Boigny More Quotes From Felix Houphouet-Boigny On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world. Felix Houphouet-Boigny country america needs