Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why we started the Green Belt Movement is to work with these ordinary peasant farmers so as to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If Africa is left behind, she is going to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon. She's going to continue logging the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
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… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
