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Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
Karl Popper
The World Loses Wangari Maathai – It’s Time For All Of Us To Heed Her Call To Become “Hummingbirds”
Green Belt Movement founder and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Wangari Maathai passed away on Sunday September 26th. A fierce yet humble advocate for the poor, particularly poor women, she was an inspiration to those of us who are working to build a better world.
This tribute to Ms. Maathai is reposted from 350.org:
“I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it’s the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet — at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.”
-Wangari Maathai
Wangari Mathaai proved that we can all make a difference in saving the planet, and that Africa would lead the way.
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RIP, Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)
Mother, Relative, Co-worker, Colleague, Role model, Heroine, and Hummingbird
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We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well – for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
~Stephen Jay Gould
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrated, he answered, “I am only boring under my own seat.”
“Yes,” said his companions, “but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you.”
~Talmud
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
~Frederick Douglass
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
~ Albert Einstein
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Dougie MacLean sings “This Love Will Carry”:
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“I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr
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“The problems of this world cannot be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities, but only by people of vision, confidence, hope and imagination.“
~George Bernard Shaw
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