I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort ... they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.
Wangari MaathaiFor me planting a tree is a very doable thing. It's not complicated, it doesn't require technology, it doesn't require much knowledge, but it can be a very important entry point into communities understanding how they destroy their own resources, but how they can also restore those resources, and not wait for their government or international agencies to come and help them.
Wangari MaathaiIt would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
Wangari MaathaiNo matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.
Wangari MaathaiI'm sure the government of Qatar is not coming in to grow food for the people of Kenya; it's coming to grow food to sell. If it can also sell to the people of Kenya, well, then good. I think that the moves can be helpful, but I think that the history that Africa knows, as I say in my book, has been a history of exploitation.
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