Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises. — 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
