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Environment Quotes by Wangari Maathai
- It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing…
- 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…
- You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they…
- Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue…
- It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them…
- The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they,…
- Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
- In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human…
- We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
- 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…
- We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
- I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
- 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…
- 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…
More Environment Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman