Best Wangari Maathai Sayings
- We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that… All
- It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa. Africa
- It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture. Accept
- Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve. Back Waste
- When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are… All
- We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. Destroy
- In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood,… Degradation
- When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land… Clash
- Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it… Aids
- That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi… Always Plant
- And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away… Colonialism
- It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. Country
- For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes… Able
- I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance. Environment
- You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict. Conflict
- I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of… Beyond
- When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet… All
- Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are… All
- As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a… Accept
- Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect. Enjoy
- I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when… Alone
- There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments. Difficult
- Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people… All
- In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher… Called
- We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so… Bases
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