Wangari Maathai Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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

  Wangari Maathai

  Real, Future, Differences

• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  Wangari Maathai

  Water, Environmental, Degradation

• 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

  Nature, Talking, Water

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

• 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.

  Wangari Maathai

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

• Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Water, Tree, Enemy

  "This much I know". Interview With Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2008.

• 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

  Jobs, Pain, People

  "Farewell Wangari Maathai, you were a global inspiration - and my heroine" by Joseph Kabiru, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.

• 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, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

  Wangari Maathai

  Fighting, Land, Oil

• In Kenya, one of our biggest exports is coffee. Where do you grow coffee? You grow coffee in the land. To be able to grow coffee you need rain, you need special kinds of soils that are found on hillsides, and that means you have to protect that land from soil erosion so you don't lose the soil. You also want to make sure that when the rains come you're going to be able to hold that water and have it go into the ground so that the streams and the rivers keep flowing and the ground is relatively humid for these plants.

  Wangari Maathai

  Rain, Coffee, Mean

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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