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Wangari Maathai Quotes
«It's a matter of life and death for this country, ... The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«If they had resources, they would not be killing each other over grazing ground and water.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty, ... While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«If you want the future generations to live in peace, we must invest in the protection of the environment and we must train especially our young people so that they don't think, for example, the whole world is like Japan.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«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.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way. 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.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
«I would be on my knees looking at them and admiring them, trying to have them on my neck, until my mother would call and wonder what ... I was doing in the river.»
Author: Wangari Maathai