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From Discover | Environment:
A couple of years ago, I had dinner with Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan woman who became the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She has spent the past three decades, with limited resources, inspiring the planting of 40 million trees across Africa and spreading the message that protecting the environment protects democracy. She explained her "lightbulb moment" (the spark that set her on her journey as an activist) to me this way: "Passion begins with a burden and a split-second moment when you understand something like never before. That burden is on those who know. Those who don't know are at peace. Those of us who do know get disturbed and are forced to take action."
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