155 Quotes by Wangari Maathai

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.

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.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.

It’s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

That’s the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

Disempowerment – whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence, apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one’s own life – is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

That’s the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

I am working to make sure we don’t only protect the environment, we also improve governance.