For me planting a tree is a very doable thing. It's not complicated, it doesn't require technology, it doesn't require much knowledge,… — 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
Today with technological advancement, with the Internet, with planes, with the rate at which we travel - even if you wanted, you… — 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
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
Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The issue of climate change, it really does bring home the fact that we are on one planet, and that some of… — 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
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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