Country Quote by Jakaya Kikwete

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

— Amala Akkineni

The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy…

— Gilbert F. White

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at…

— Jeff Corwin

We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is…

— Petra Kelly

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results…

— Edward Zwick

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time…

— Nick Clegg

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

— Yoweri Museveni

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while…

— Li Keqiang

The earth has enough resources for our need, but not for our greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

With such wisdom has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without…

— James Hutton

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

— Wendell Berry