Quotes by : Wangari Maathai

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they....

Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others....

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as....

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to....

No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for.....

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk....

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.....

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a....

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in....

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walking....