Wangari Maathai Quotes - Page 6

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• It goes to local authorities and even to members of Parliament so that individual citizens almost become people who want to sit and wait for their member of Parliament to come and solve the problem. Now that won't take you anywhere. And if you follow it, you will see that it feeds corruption in the country.

  Wangari Maathai

  Country, People, Waiting

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Talking, People

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• 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, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

  Wangari Maathai

  Issues, Tree, Needs

  "I Will Disappear Into the Forest". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2005.

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• So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?

  Wangari Maathai

  Gmos, May, Produce

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Nile perch is a fish that was introduced into Lake Victoria. The reason that fish was introduced into Lake Victoria was because it was decided that the people living near the lake needed more proteins than they were getting.

  Wangari Maathai

  Lakes, People, Reason

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• If Africa is left behind, she is going to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, especially carbon. She's going to continue logging the forests, she's going to continue burning charcoal, she is going to continue practicing agricultural activities that destroy the environment, and sooner or later Africa's problem will become a global problem.

  Wangari Maathai

  Atmosphere, Logging, Forests

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation at the coastal areas to be restored because that was part of the vegetation that actually protected the hinterlands.

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Trying, Example

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have not invested so much into education, we don't have the technology and sometimes we don't even have the capital to buy this technology.

  Wangari Maathai

  Moving, Technology, Energy

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Evil, Black

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• Sometimes I feel frustration at the bureaucracy for not moving fast enough to deliver in the way that I would prefer. But that is probably because I have worked for many years in the civil society, which tends to move much faster than government.

  Wangari Maathai

  Moving, Frustration, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.

  Wangari Maathai

  Daughter, War, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm sure the government of Qatar is not coming in to grow food for the people of Kenya; it's coming to grow food to sell. If it can also sell to the people of Kenya, well, then good. I think that the moves can be helpful, but I think that the history that Africa knows, as I say in my book, has been a history of exploitation.

  Wangari Maathai

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• 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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• Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the tragedy of when they fail, because we are dealing with life systems, and when we hear that a species has become extinct, or is threatened, you realize that this could mean that this species will disappear from the face of the earth forever! So that understanding really gives you energy to do something to save it.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mean, Giving, Forever

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

  Wangari Maathai

  Attitude, Play, Space

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• Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

  Wangari Maathai

  Doubt, Hiv, Monkeys

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• Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.

  Wangari Maathai

  Law, Government, Kenya

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• I think [GMO] is one area where the is a need for legal regulations to make sure that companies - because at the moment, companies are the ones that have this technology - will not use this technology in a way that could adversely affect the people.

  Wangari Maathai

  Technology, Thinking, Gmos

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• One of the reasons why I've written The Challenge for Africa is to save it. Surely there are so many problems we can solve in Africa, but first and foremost, we need a government that feels responsible to protect their own people from the exploitations, from the misuse, from the mistreatment that they can easily get.

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, People, Challenges

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Obviously the world is moving away from high carbon energy to low carbon energy, and eventually moving away toward renewable energy. So it is in the interest of Africa to move towards that, because that's where the world is moving.

  Wangari Maathai

  Moving, Energy, World

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• We see that the environment is something to exploit, because we see the environment in terms of minerals for example, or forests, or even raw materials that we produce on our land, or even land itself. We see it in terms of what we can exploit rather than the medium in which all of these activities have to take place.

  Wangari Maathai

  Land, Example, Raw Materials

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• For example, they have land. The government of Qatar wants to lease the Tana River delta, which is in Kenya, from the Kenyan government, so that they can produce food there. People in Kenya need food. We have people who have studied agriculture. Why is it that if we really need food, we cannot go into the delta and develop our own food?

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Qatar, Land

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

  Wangari Maathai

  Children, School, Thinking

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Education of course is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much faster because they could get a job, they could get money, and with money you could buy things that you cannot buy if you don't have money.

  Wangari Maathai

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• As a scientist I cannot say we don't want to hear anything about GMOs, because these are advances in science. But I think its also important, especially when you are dealing with food, to be cautious.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Gmos, Important

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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