Wangari Maathai Quotes

From avoiding littering to encouraging local economy, there is a lot each one of us can do that will go a long way in keeping the country's cultural legacy intact.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor

Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things, and he's not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

We face a fundamental question which can be described as both ethical and ecological. How can accelerated development be prevented from turning against man? How can one prevent disasters that destroy the environment and threaten all forms of life, and how can the negative consequences that have already occurred be remedied?

In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business.

Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

In the days ahead, I will propose more ways for more Americans to get involved in national service and give back to our communities, because every one of us has a role to play in building the future we want.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

It is important to explain fully to the local areas with sincerity. We will also think, of course, about the development promotion of the communities.