Areas Quote by Wangari Maathai

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one…

— Wangari Maathai

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we…

— Guy Ritchie

“Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental…

— Jim Robbins

I am not against development, but society will go nowhere if you don't take care of trees.

— Raj Thackeray

“Savory is concerned that since tree planting sounds like a good, noncontroversial idea, governments and NGOs might rally around that when the money could…

— Judith D. Schwartz

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you…

— Penelope Keith

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the…

— Wangari Maathai

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation…

— Thornton Wilder

Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn't stop me from wanting to be one - to just stop feeling…

— Emma Gonzalez

The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and…

— Al Gore

We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger…

— Melinda Gates

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

— George Perkins Marsh