Wangari Maathai Quotes

We have a unique culture.

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Culture is more important than politics.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Custom is our nature …

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

Every country has its own culture and sensitivities.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.