We’re taking time out to celebrate and applaud the tireless work of women to overcome injustice and work towards a green and peaceful future.

We’re taking time out to celebrate and applaud the tireless work of women to overcome injustice and work towards a green and peaceful future.

Take a look through the wise words of the women below today and think about what you can do to ‘Make it Happen’

Inspiring quote. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do" - Eleanor Roosevelt
Inspiring quote. For the sake of our families health and our kids' future, we have a moral obligation to act on climate - Gina McCarthy, EPA Administrator
Inspiring quote."*[2015] can be the year in which we all commit to seeing the last child out of school, the last child forced into slavery and the last child forced to flee their home because of the danger of Climate change." - Malala Yousafzai
Inspiring quote. "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." - Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Inspiring quote. "The environment, after all, is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become." - Lady Bird Johnson
Inspiring quote. We wont have a society if we destroy the environment - Margaret Mead
Inspiring quote. What happens to the earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life: we are but one thread - Rebecca Adamson
Inspiring quote. "We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better." J. K. Rowling
Inspiring quote. "To cherish what remains of the earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival" - WENDELL BERRY
Inspiring quote. "You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people. you inform them. and you help them understand that these resources are their own. That they must protect them." - Wangari Maathai
Inspiring quote. "It's not an investment if it's destroying the planet" - Vandana Shiva

Huge thanks to our friends at Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA, Greenpeace UK, Greenpeace India and Greenpeace Philippines for these great images!