“What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“These other cultures are not failed attempts to be us; they are unique manifestations of the spirit—other options, other visions of life… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you;… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“Even now I am haunted by the touching look of the young, bright, anxious eyes as we passed along the rows of sufferers. There,… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned,… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you are by… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“Marsh had travelled on foot to the source of the Nile and once stood down a charging rhinoceros by intrepidly opening a pink umbrella… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
