Green Belt Movement Quotes & Sayings

I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do. — Steve Vai

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Michel De Montaigne

Don't judge a community by how much they are suffering but judge them by how much they are learning from it. That is what really matters. — Debasish Mridha

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement. — Terry Teachout

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God. — Arthur W. Pink

The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole. — Rudolf Steiner

Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections. — Baris Gencel

Never lose this innovation spirit. — Thorsten Heins

It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment. — Eusebius

The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment. — Wangari Maathai

My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of course, she was a talkative, jolly, interminably curious woman, who loved people, and who enjoyed the personal details of their lives almost as much as they did themselves. — Molly Picon

Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be. — Meshell Ndegeocello

It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values. — Wangari Maathai

Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people. — Russell Simmons