ecologyglobal:"It's the little things citizens do. That's what...

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"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."

That one "little" thing led Wangari Maathai, who died September 25th, to found a movement that not only planted over 47 million trees worldwide, including re-foresting her native Kenya, but has bettered the lives of over 900,000 women through economic empowerment. "Mama Trees," as she was affectionately known, spoke from experience when she said: "Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do."