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The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
Quote by -Wendell Berry
Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
Quote by -William Shatner
There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that
Quote by -Woody Harrelson
You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.
Quote by -Clifford Joseph Harris Jr
I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills.
Quote by -Tim Allen
British Columbia's got one of the most ambitious climate change plans in North America.
Quote by -Jahlil Okafor
A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they're not sitting down at the table, the art of conversation is going to go.
Quote by -Laurie David
If you can influence five people, fantastic. If you can influence five hundred people, fantastic. It's all important.
Quote by -Laurie David
Americans want to reduce our dependence on oil. And Americans really don't wanna be contributing global warming if they can help it.
Quote by -Laurie David
Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.
Quote by -Laurie David
When you see that charger in the wall, you have to now say okay that's, that's contributing to global-warming pollution, I have to pull that charger out of the wall.
Quote by -Laurie David
What does everyone in America own? A car. What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.
Quote by -Laurie David
Look, I don't have the millions of dollars that Exxon has. But I've got comedy. I've got satire. I've got stars.
Quote by -Laurie David
Kids need rituals. They need the security of them, the bonding time of them.
Quote by -Laurie David
The fact that this is what John McCain is suggesting - more offshore drilling and more nuclear power plants? I don't think so. Not even close. Not even in the ballpark of what we need.
Quote by -Laurie David
Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.
Quote by -Laurie David
A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy.
Quote by -Laurie David
I didn't have any eating disorder or food addiction, but I struggle like every single person with my weight every day. Honestly, a day does not go by where I am not thinking about what I am eating.
Quote by -Laurie David
Vote for candidates who care about these issues, and hold these candidates accountable. I don't care what party; I'm past that point. I care whether they are concerned about the energy security of this country.
Quote by -Laurie David
Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.
Quote by -Laurie David
Any time you put people in a room with Bill McDonough, they leave there blown away, their mouths agape. I had a similar feeling when I first met Al Gore.
Quote by -Laurie David
By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.
Quote by -Laurie David
School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.
Quote by -Laurie David
If you take added sugar out of your diet, when you have fruit for dessert it is going to taste fantastic!
Quote by -Laurie David
That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.
Quote by -Laurie David
I have kids, I want something left for them. It's a cliche, I know, but it's true. That's what drives me every day.
Quote by -Laurie David
What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.
Quote by -Laurie David
If you're doing takeout, try to get the healthiest takeout you can. And just take it out of the plastic, right? Get your grandma's old china or get a fancy little bowl, and put the takeout in the bowl and light a candle.
Quote by -Laurie David