English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Wangari Maathai Quotes

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

Wangari Maathai

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer. Tyler Florence
If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day. Estelle Morris
Although deer season doesn’t start until November in Maine, the fields of October are often alive with gunshots; the locals are shooting as many peasants as they think their families will eat. Stephen King
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music. Alan Lomax
Benazir Bhutto quote: "Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my..."
Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return. Benazir Bhutto
By some magic reversal, everything spectacularly useless filled the drawer intended for practical tools. What could you do with a single piece of jigsaw? But, on the other hand, did you dare throw it away? Ian Mcewan
Jane Austen quote: "Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. Jane Austen
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the... John Holt
Christian Lacroix quote: "I look for friends who make me laugh."
I look for friends who make me laugh. Christian Lacroix
Katherine Mansfield quote: " but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate..."
... but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield
Our slightest desire, though unique as a chord, nevertheless includes the fundamental notes on which the whole of our life is built. And sometimes, if we were to eliminate one of them, even one that we do not hear, that we are not aware of, one that has no connexion with the object of our quest, we would nevertheless see our whole desire for that object disappear. Marcel Proust
Terry Prachett quote: "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY."
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY. Terry Prachett
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. Tony Blair
Leonard Cohen quote: "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect..."
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
Wendell Berry quote: "It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to..."
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve. Wendell Berry