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Development Quotes by Wangari Maathai
- The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss…
- People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And I was told, "This is…
- Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the…
- We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
- 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…
- The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in…
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- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but… — Alexander Graham Bell
- Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way.… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak