“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.”

— Wangari Maathai

Speech at Goldman Awards, San Francisco (24 April 2006)

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Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940–2011

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