Wangari Maathai, Yale Club, New York City, 2002. Photo by Martin Rowe “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.”—Wangari Maathai  Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died late on Sunday, September 25th after battling cancer. She was 71.Parabola conducted an interview with Maathai in “Holy Earth.” She was a remarkable woman. Read THE TREE OF LIFE: An interview with Wangari Maathai, PARABOLA, Fall 2007 Subscribe to Parabola!
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Wangari Maathai, Yale Club, New York City, 2002. Photo by Martin Rowe

“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.”

—Wangari Maathai 

Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died late on Sunday, September 25th after battling cancer. She was 71.

Parabola conducted an interview with Maathai in “Holy Earth.” She was a remarkable woman.

Read THE TREE OF LIFE: An interview with Wangari Maathai, PARABOLA, Fall 2007

Subscribe to Parabola!

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