Wangari Maathai

As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason…

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Wangari Maathai

When you know who you are you are free.

— Wangari Maathai

Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But…

— Wangari Maathai

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their…

— Wangari Maathai

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was…

— Wangari Maathai

The people are learning that you cannot leave decisions only to leaders. Local groups have to create the political will for change,…

— Wangari Maathai

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

— Wangari Maathai

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

— Wangari Maathai

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the…

— Wangari Maathai

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept…

— Wangari Maathai

When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start…

— 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

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a…

— Wangari Maathai