Pace e Bene – 3 March 2023

“Poverty and need have a very close relationship with a degraded environment. . . . When you talk about the problems, you tend to disempower people. You tend to make people feel that there is nothing they can do, that they are doomed, that there is no hope. I realized that to break the cycle, one has to start with a positive step, and I thought that planting a tree is very simple, very easy—something positive that anybody can do.”—Wangari Maathai