We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk.
Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental activist,
winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and
founder of the Green Belt Movement in Africa
“I’m so delighted to hear that New Dimensions got to interview Wangari Maathai. She was, as you know, the first African woman to win a Nobel Prize. There is a Haitian Creole phrase that was often heard after a most devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010. It was “Annou leve kampe.” One translation of it is “Let us rise up and walk.” My father has a tee shirt with that phrase. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness – to reach a higher moral ground – a time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the 
present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk.”
Apricot Irving author of The Gospel of Trees:
A Memoir (regarding her time in Haiti)
