#able

When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#conflicts #degraded #distribution #global #going

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#disease #i #incurable

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. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#beyond #cause #causes #i #just

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#committee #doing #going #humanity #i

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#adequately #africa #blame #cannot #economy

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. ↗

— George MacDonald

#power #riches #want #without

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#about #admirers #basis #between #collectors

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware. ↗

— Diosdado Macapagal

#i #power #run #sat #sumptuous

Love's a disease. But curable. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#disease #love