I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I would like to call on young people to commit themselves to activities that contribute toward achieving their long-term dreams. They have… — 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
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on… — 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
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
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
Obviously the world is moving away from high carbon energy to low carbon energy, and eventually moving away toward renewable energy. So… — 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
The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a… — 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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