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Children Quotes by Wangari Maathai

10 Children quotes by Wangari Maathai

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Wangari Maathai’s ten brief musings on children reveal her gentle concern for the next generation. Though the set is modest, each line carries the quiet conviction of someone who’s spent a lifetime tending to growth, both literal and metaphorical.

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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a…

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We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send…

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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

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Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property.…

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For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that…

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I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace…

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One of the reasons why we started the Green Belt Movement is to work with these ordinary peasant farmers so as to…

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Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used…

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I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married…

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People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was…

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I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that…

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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they…

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As a scientist I cannot say we don't want to hear anything about GMOs, because these are advances in science. But I think its…

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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to…

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