From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, these lucid, incisive writings explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive. The three chapters in this book were first published in 2010.
This book is part of Green Ideas, a series of twenty short books from Penguin Classics that brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth.
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) was a Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and founder of the Green Belt Movement, which to date has planted 51 million trees in Kenya.