On becoming an advocate for sustainability: personal reflections
Abstract
I reflect on my childhood experience when I would visit a stream next to our home to fetch water for my mother. I would drink water straight from the stream. Playing among the arrowroot leaves I tried in vain to pick up the strands of frogs' eggs, believing they were beads. But every time I put my little fingers under them they would break. Later, I saw thousands of tadpoles: black, energetic and wriggling through the clear water against the background of the brown earth. This is the world I inherited from my parents.
Citation
Maathai, W. (2010). On becoming an advocate for sustainability: personal reflections. (African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development Volume: 2 Issue:1, 2010 pg 165-167Publisher
University of Nairobi