Conditions Quote by Wangari Maathai Download Open image “The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment” — Wangari Maathai ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conditions Environment Ifs Life Living conditions Nature Our environment Poor Save Our Environment Want
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good,… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment — Jon Wynne-Tyson Copy Share Image
We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number… — Arron Wood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly. — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image