Wangari
Maathai 1940 – 2011 · Kenya

She didn't start with climate change.
She started with rural women in Kenya — and three quiet, urgent questions.

In 1977, Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement — a response not to policy, but to what she heard when she listened to women in village after village across Kenya. 1977年，她创立绿带运动。起点，是倾听。

What began as a tree-planting initiative became something far larger: a living structure joining ecological restoration, women's empowerment, community governance, and the reclamation of human dignity. 从种树，到赋权妇女、社区治理、生态修复——几十年，一个问题。

In 2004, she became the first African woman — and first environmentalist — to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

She was not studying trees. She was studying the severed connection between people and land — and asking whether that connection could be rebuilt. 她真正研究的，是人与土地之间失去的连接，能否重新建立？

Millions of trees were planted across Africa. But what Maathai planted first was the question itself — one that grew roots long before any seedling did.

She taught us: the act of planting is also an act of agency. A woman who plants a tree is reclaiming her relationship to land, to community, to the future. 种一棵树的女人，也是在重新拥有她与土地、与未来的关系。