Wangari Maathai Quotes

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

Human use of one resource runs squarely against human use of another resource.

Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.

We nor our bailiffs will take another man’s wood for Our castles or any other purpose without the owner’s consent.

We should not be strangling ourselves economically by not utilizing the resources we have been given or by putting them off-limits.

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

What I said when Otter Creek came up is that we in Montana have a history of giving away our resources. We need to make sure Montana is getting its share.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run out of resources. If you embrace their idea of a world where there is only so much to go around, then you are endorsing a program of genocide and a war of all against all.

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.