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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 29 quotes by Wangari Maathai Wikiquote has quotations related to: Wangari Maathai Wangari Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica (Benedictine College) and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the... Read full biography of Wangari Maathai → 1 2 3 Ctrl → When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water... → 0 We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits... → 0 In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between... → 0 It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. 0 We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. 0 It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. 0 We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. 0 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. 0 African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated... → 0 In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch... → 0 But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil... → 0 When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over... → 0 When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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