Gli alberi sono stati una parte essenziale della mia vita e mi hanno insegnato tantissime cose. Sono simboli viventi di pace e speranza. Un albero sp… - Wangari Muta Maathai
" "Gli alberi sono stati una parte essenziale della mia vita e mi hanno insegnato tantissime cose. Sono simboli viventi di pace e speranza. Un albero spinge le radici nel profondo del terreno e tuttavia svetta alto nel cielo. Ci dice che per poter ambire a qualcosa dobbiamo essere ben piantati per terra e che, indipendentemente da quanto in alto arriviviamo, è sempre dalle radici che attingiamo il nostro
sostentamento. Serve e ricordare a tutti noi che abbiamo avuto successo nella vita che non possiamo dimenticare da dove siamo venuti. Significa che non importa quanto diventiamo potenti o quanti
premi riceviamo: la possibilità, la forza e la capacità di raggiungere i nostri obiettivi dipendono esclusivamente dalle persone, da tutti quelli che lavorano nell'ombra, che sono la terra su cui noi cresciamo, le spalle che ci sorreggono.
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About Wangari Muta Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan environmental and social activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 2004.
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Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.
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