#source

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. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

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

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

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#experience #found #foundation #i #i think

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#after #always #best #case #days

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#disease #fear #happiness #help #i

My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level. ↗

— Scott McCallum

#bring #cases #could #decisions #goal

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#backward #because #look #pool #resources

My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#better job #care #continue #energy #energy policy