Oh Goddess Wangari

Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, was here in Sacramento on Friday. She was the first African woman and the first environmentalist to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her "contribution to sustainable development, human rights, and peace."

I call her a Goddess, my heroine, amazing. But I think these quotes say it best -

" . . . a prophet for our time . . . the voice to lead us forward [has come] out of Africa . . . " Alexandra Fuller, author

"Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit . . ." unknown





A tree was planted in Capitol Park to honor Wangari and this is me "helping" by backfilling some of the soil.

I have a few more pictures that are stuck on my phone, which has a dead battery . . .