Wangari Maathai Quotes

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now.

The entire Party, the whole army, and all the people should conduct a vigorous forest restoration campaign to make the mountains of the country thick with forests.

The government should promote community nurseries of mangrove species and other appropriate tree species chosen under the coastal bio-shield and agro-forestry programmes.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree.

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make it survive. That's what makes the difference

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

China has led the world in new tree planting. Over the last several years China has planted 40 percent as many trees as the rest of the world put together. Since 198, all citizens of China over age 11 (and younger than 60) have been formally required at least three trees per year.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

I live in a tree called Luna. I am trying to save her life. Believe me, this is not what I intended to do with my own.

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

I have spent time in many of the world's popular wilderness locations and I would say Nepal should be proud. It is an example of man repairing the damage he has done.