For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and… — 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,… — 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… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests… — 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
I don't believe [Africa] is ready to shift - and she needs to shift. So she needs to get the technology and… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I say we all need to work together to save the Congo forest, because if we don't… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we… — 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
I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I learned in America a long time ago, the three R's, the principle of three R's - reuse, reduce, recycle. And as… — 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
The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the… — 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
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