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
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
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
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You… — 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
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water,… — 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
