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Wangari Maathai was an eminent Kenyan social-environmental activist and teacher, and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She spent a major part of her life fighting for social and environmental issues. She also became the first environmentalist and African woman to receive a Nobel Prize. In the 1970s she founded the \u2018Green Belt Movement\u2019 that was aimed at planting trees in order to protect the environment and the livelihoods of indigenous women. This movement not only planted over 47 million trees worldwide, including re-foresting her native Kenya, but has bettered the lives of over 900,000 women through economic empowerment. \u201cMama Trees,\u201d as she was affectionately known, spoke from experience when she said: \u201cEvery person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Labeled a \u201csubversive\u201d by Kenya\u2019s former president, Daniel Arap Moi, she was beaten unconscious and jailed when she fought against the government\u2019s plan to build a skyscraper in the middle of Uhuru Park, one of the last remaining public green spaces in Nairobi. Maathai\u2019s efforts prevailed, and she went on to become internationally recognized as a leader in environmental and human rights activism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes:<\/span><\/p>\n

In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come… Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can love ourselves by loving the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.<\/span><\/p>\n

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is to eliminate poverty. But you can’t reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what’s happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.<\/span><\/p>\n

A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded and that no matter how high we go it is from our roots that we draw sustenance. It is a reminder to all of us who have had success that we cannot forget where we came from. It signifies that no matter how powerful we become in government or how many awards we receive, our power and strength and our ability to reach our goals depend on the people, those whose work remain unseen, who are the soil out of which we grow, the shoulders on which we stand<\/span><\/p>\n

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