"Culture is coded wisdom" — Wangari Maathai
"Culture is coded wisdom"
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Wangari Maathai
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79 Quotes by Wangari Maathai
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We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
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It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be…
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The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives,…
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We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The…
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People need open space. People need to bring their children into an area where they can play without restriction." And…
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You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree,…
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As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political…
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Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you…
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It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus…
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Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models…
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Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of…
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Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up…
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More Coded Quotes
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one of 43 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
— Russell Baker
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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and…
— John le Carre
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
— Lewis Thomas
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it…
— Vanessa Redgrave
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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their…
— Albert Bandura
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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist…
— Laura Mulvey
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With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it’s like a collectible.
— Bobby Lee
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The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven…
— Simon Sebag-Montefiore
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All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great.…
— Mark Victor Hansen
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First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog…
— Evan Sayet
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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
— Nina Bawden
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Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born…
— Marianne Williamson
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