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It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
- Wangari Maathai
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#Make A Difference
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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
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#Women
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
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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
- Wangari Maathai
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
- Wangari Maathai
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#Life
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
- Wangari Maathai
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
- Wangari Maathai
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#God
#Know
#Me
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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
- Wangari Maathai
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#Governance
#I Am
#Protect
We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.
- Wangari Maathai
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
- Wangari Maathai
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
- Wangari Maathai
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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 from fear and from silence.
- Wangari Maathai
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
- Wangari Maathai
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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
- Wangari Maathai
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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.
- Wangari Maathai
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#Generation
#Next
#Owe
#World
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
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#Plant
#Survive
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#Water
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
- Wangari Maathai
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#Peace
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