Wangari Maathai Marching with Trees
b'The late Wangari Maathai was a biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She was born under British colonial occupation and schooled by Catholic missionaries. But when she looked back on her childhood near the end of her life, she realized her family\\u2019s Kikuyu culture had imparted her with an intuitive sense of environmental balance. Maathai was steadfast in her determination to fight for the twin issues of conservation and human rights \\u2014 and planting trees was a symbol of defiance.\\nWangari Maathai founded the global Green Belt Movement, which has contributed today to the planting of over 52 million trees. She was the 2004 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Her books include the memoir \\u201cUnbowed\\u201d and \\u201cReplenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World.\\u201d She\\u2019s also one of the 100 heroic women featured in the book \\u201cGood Night Stories for Rebel Girls.\\u201d She died in 2011 at the age of 71.\\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.'