Wangari Maathai Quotes
Top 36 wise famous quotes and sayings by Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Wangari Maathai on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Unfortunately, the issues of climate change, unlike many other issues, are very subtle because the changes we observe are very, very subtle.
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.
All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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.
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.
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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.
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.
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.
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.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
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.
What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.
I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.