Carbon Quote by Wangari Maathai

For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests…

— Wangari Maathai

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

— Wangari Maathai

What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when…

— Wangari Maathai

As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more…

— Wangari Maathai

If Africa is left behind, she is going to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon. She's going to continue logging the…

— Wangari Maathai

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

— Wangari Maathai

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

— Wangari Maathai

I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married or not.…

— Wangari Maathai

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that…

— Wangari Maathai

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they…

— Wangari Maathai

As a scientist I cannot say we don't want to hear anything about GMOs, because these are advances in science. But I think its…

— Wangari Maathai

When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to…

— Wangari Maathai