Maathai Quotes
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Maathai Quotes & Sayings
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There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.
— Wangari Maathai
I definitely hope to relax when I get back hope. I will disappear into the forest and be rejuvenated by the beauty of the mountains.
— Wangari Maathai
Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.
— Wangari Maathai
I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
— Wangari Maathai
The little grassroots people can change this world.
— Wangari Maathai
All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.
— Wangari Maathai
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.
— Wangari Maathai
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
— Wangari Maathai
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
— Wangari Maathai
The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment
— Wangari Maathai
There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.
— Wangari Maathai
We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
— Wangari Maathai
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
— Wangari Maathai
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
— Wangari Maathai
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
— 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 is planting.
— 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
Culture is coded wisdom
— Wangari Maathai
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
— Wangari Maathai
We can love ourselves by loving the earth.
— Wangari Maathai
You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.
— Wangari Maathai
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.
— Wangari Maathai
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
— Wangari Maathai
No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.
— Wangari Maathai
The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
— Wangari Maathai
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
— Wangari Maathai
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
— Wangari Maathai
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
— Wangari Maathai
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
— Wangari Maathai
Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.
— Wangari Maathai
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.
— Wangari Maathai
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.
— Wangari Maathai
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.
— Wangari Maathai