Wangari Maathai

This Quotations Archive contains words from famous and some not so famous people who have expressed a sense of love, compassion, and respect for all of God's creation: for people, for animals, and for the environment. They speak of our teaching methods and philosophy. They speak of a lifestyle of non-violence. They seek to eliminate cruelty and suffering. They seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope.

Wangari Maathai
Nobel-Prize winner. Founder of Kenya's Greenbelt Movement

There is a terrible forest fire. All the animals are fleeing the conflagration except Hummingbird, who is flying back and forth, scooping up little slivers of water from a spring and dumping them on the flames. "What do you think you're doing, stupid little bird?" the other animals ask derisively, and Hummingbird says, "I'm doing what I can."

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Wangari Maathai Nobel-Prize winner. Founder of Kenya's Greenbelt Movement

Wangari Maathai
Nobel-Prize winner. Founder of Kenya's Greenbelt Movement