Land Quotes by Wangari Maathai

9 Land quotes by Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai’s nine brief thoughts weave land with stewardship and community empowerment. They provide a quick, inspiring look at ecological activism.

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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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When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal…

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After Hurricane Katrina, many people said that the levees were not as effective as the natural vegetation that had been removed at…

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Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it,…

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For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the…

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Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources…

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We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests,…

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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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In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be…

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For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests…

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We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

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What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when…

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As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more…

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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…

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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

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I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

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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 or not.…

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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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Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown…

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Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags.…

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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 Laureate. As…

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