Carrying Maathai’s idea forward means translating “best I can” into concrete, sustainable steps: one phone call, one vote, one tree, one mentoring session, one policy comment, repeated over time. The hummingbird does not carry an ocean; it carries what it can carry, again and again.
Finally, the quote suggests a kind of moral identity: deciding who you will be in a crisis. When you choose to be the hummingbird, you stop waiting for the perfect plan or the perfect hero, and you become a dependable unit of change—small, persistent, and contagious. [...]
