Top 8 Elizabeth Wathuti Quotes

Kenyan environmental activist

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Elizabeth Wathuti born (1995-08-01) is a Kenyan environment and climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative, which nurtures young people to love nature and be environmentally conscious at a young age and has now planted 30,000 tree seedlings in Kenya.

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Alternative Names: Elizabeth Wanjiru Wathuti

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That kind of people power is what is going to make a huge and real difference in the world today.

It's not easy to get someone to take action. That ability and the will to act has to come from deep within us so that we can do what must be done and we need to know how to get people and how to move people to actually take action. And if we get a majority of people who actually understand and feel it themselves, then we are the people that are also going to move the leaders to take action.

If we are going to achieve everything, we will need everyone on board.

This is about humanity's future. This is about making sure that the world right now is liveable.

But if we can get everybody around the world to love nature, to appreciate nature, and to make sure that we are doing this from deep within our hearts and deep within ourselves, then we can change so much in the world within a short period of time.

Most of the things that are happening in the world right now are because we have chosen to put profits above the people and our planet.

I believe in our human capacity to care deeply and to act collectively. I believe in our ability to do what is right if we let ourselves feel it in our hearts.

Everyday when we look after the trees, they look after us, but this trees and the life-saving fruit they bear will not survive on a 2.7 degree celsius warmer planet.