Wangari Maathai Quotes

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• You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.

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  People, Empowering, Helping

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• When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

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  Tree, Climate, Plant

  Wangari Maathai (2004). “The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience”, p.12, Lantern Books

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• In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.

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  Leadership, Peace, Thinking

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

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  Real, Future, Differences

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• No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

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  Matter, Capability, Do The Best

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• You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.

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  Mind, Knows, Values

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• Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.

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  Peace, People, Tree

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• We can love ourselves by loving the earth.

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  Earth

  Wangari Maathai (2010). “Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World”, p.17, Image

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• Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Support Systems

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

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  Differences, Tree, Citizens

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• 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 all.

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  Inspiring, Children, Generations

  "Farewell Wangari Maathai, You Were a Global Inspiration – and My Heroine" by Joseph Kabiru, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Rights, People

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• Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

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  Mean, Land, People

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• We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

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  Diversity, Needs, Earth

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• When you know who you are you are free.

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  Knows, Who You Are

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

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  Peace, Self, People

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• Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.

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  Climate Change, Knocked Down, Persons

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• There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

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  Opportunity, Moments, Difficult

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• We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

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  Giving Up, Generations, Earth

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• Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

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  Giving Up, Suffering, Generations

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• 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.

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  Nature, Talking, Water

  Wangari Maathai's speech at Goldman Awards in San Francisco, April 24, 2006.

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• I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.

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  Teamwork, Running, Risk

  Wangari Maathai (2004). “The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience”, p.136, Lantern Books

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• Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

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  People, Sometimes, Not Sure

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I want to do the right things - I want to plant trees, I want to make sure that the indigenous forests are protected because I know, whatever happens, these are the forests that contain biodiversity, these are the forests that help us retain water when it rains and keep our rivers flowing, these are the forests that many future generations will need.

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  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The little grassroots people can change this world.

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  People, World, Littles

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