Wangari Maathai Quotes

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

People protect what they love.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

I do hope there are other wonderful planets living and thriving out there, but ours is special because it is ours and ours to take care of. We really can't take that too lightly.

You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

We have a country that we have to take care of.

If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.