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Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

— Wangari Maathai

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Wangari Maathai

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous…

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Wangari Maathai

Education is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much…

— Wangari Maathai

It goes to local authorities and even to members of Parliament so that individual citizens almost become people who want to sit…

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Wangari Maathai

We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like…

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Wangari Maathai

I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests…

— Wangari Maathai