“The government exists for one purpose—to take everything away from you.” — Scott Wallace Government Copy Share Image
“The only problem is that by the time you get the Indian to understand that, he’s stopped being Indian.” Ele deixa de… — Scott Wallace Time Copy Share Image
“Like the rest of her people, back then she’d thought that the whites were but a handful, and she proposed wiping them… — Scott Wallace Heart Copy Share Image
“One official in the state oil company likened the tribes to the Loch Ness monster, a mere figment of the imagination concocted… — Scott Wallace Business Copy Share Image
“Without intact forest, the Indians had nothing. Environmental protection was central to their survival. *” — Scott Wallace Environmental protection Copy Share Image
“They are a reminder that it’s possible to live another way,” Meirelles told the BBC as he looked down on the Indians… — Scott Wallace Free people Copy Share Image
“counting their 4 percent share as they drilled away at the riverbank and leached out the gold into dull yellow cakes” — Scott Wallace Gold Copy Share Image
“The Kayapó of Gorotire had made a deal with the devil; they got a cut of the action from the Maria Bonita… — Scott Wallace Ruined Copy Share Image
“Which smells more—one piece of shit or two? Take deforestation. You cut down the forests, and you destroy the flora, the fauna,… — Scott Wallace Smells Copy Share Image
“human beings were a part of the complex system of interactions among living organisms that made up an ecosystem, rather than apart… — Scott Wallace Biology Copy Share Image
“The monstrosity was topped by a gray, weather-beaten shack, the living quarters, whose upper story was peppered full of bullet holes and… — Scott Wallace Life Copy Share Image
“Without a single boat to patrol the district’s myriad waterways, his agents effectively went nowhere; the municipality’s entire network of roads petered… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“You know, Indians don’t attack whites just because they like to or because it’s their nature,” Possuelo said, imparting a quick civics… — Scott Wallace Nature Copy Share Image
“When the waitress came to take our order, I ordered an ice-cold Coke. Guzzling it down in no time flat, I was… — Scott Wallace Time Copy Share Image
“I could think of no better reason to applaud Brazil’s efforts—however flawed, enfeebled, or underfunded—to protect them. As the Possuelo-led sertanistas pointed… — Scott Wallace Indians Copy Share Image
“an even more withering drought returned in 2010. Billions more trees perished, releasing their stored carbon. For the first time, the Amazon… — Scott Wallace Carbon Copy Share Image
“His intentions were pure, at least he thought so; he wanted to get the Indians to medical care quickly. But the more… — Scott Wallace Arrogance Copy Share Image
“poverty and desperation are fueling much of the environmental crime in Amazon. Twelve million wild birds and animals are poached in Brazil… — Scott Wallace Animals Copy Share Image
“the separation process, in which mercury and cyanide were used to extract the gold from the ore. It would be dumped straight… — Scott Wallace Birth defects Copy Share Image
“the original Americans were undoubtedly better off before our European forebears arrived at their shores. And if there were still some final… — Scott Wallace Indians Copy Share Image
“Once you make contact,” he’d told me, “you begin the process of destroying their universe.” Only” — Scott Wallace Destroying Copy Share Image
“They need to get organized and understand the importance of protecting this.” — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“we are in truth acting as the spearhead for a cold, complex, and determined society, one that has no forgiveness for technologically… — Scott Wallace Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“As long as they had streams unsullied by mercury and sprawling woodlands rich with animals, they could remain beyond our reach, beyond… — Scott Wallace Cold beer Copy Share Image
“he hoped the sheer isolation would keep most intruders from venturing in this direction. That, and the willingness of the Indians to… — Scott Wallace Intruders Copy Share Image
“The equating of primitive culture with backwardness has been so ingrained in the popular mind that even so-called civilized Indians on the… — Scott Wallace Backwardness Copy Share Image
“innumerable tribes wiped out, enslaved, or set to fighting each other. Rivers poisoned, forests razed. Possuelo had seen the consequences with his… — Scott Wallace Indians Copy Share Image
“Eager to generate employment and earn revenues on timber and hydrocarbon development, Peruvian president Alan García had thrown his country’s Amazonian territories… — Scott Wallace Oil and gas Copy Share Image
“Most important, as far as Possuelo was concerned, they appeared to be thriving in every way. Isolation, far from strangling them, had… — Scott Wallace Victory Copy Share Image
“admired, even emulated. “You saw for yourselves, the Indian doesn’t need the white man to live,” he went on. “He knows how… — Scott Wallace Admired Copy Share Image
“He explained the dynamic that leads an uprooted tribe to extinction: “The women stop having children. Under these conditions, why have children?… — Scott Wallace Children Copy Share Image
“Without definitive expulsion of all the whites, violence would erupt again; it was just a matter of time. History had demonstrated graphically… — Scott Wallace History Copy Share Image
“sitting in hospital waiting rooms with Indians he’d brought in from the bush, encountering the blatant racism that so often attended such… — Scott Wallace Another time Copy Share Image
“In another time and place, the Texeiras would have been hailed as model citizens, environmental stewards, exactly the kind of decent, hardworking… — Scott Wallace Another time Copy Share Image
“He might wish the Indians to transcend their narrow tribal interests, to see themselves not just as Matis or Marubo, Kanamari or… — Scott Wallace Indians Copy Share Image
“floating rigs that laid waste to huge stretches of shoreline and spewed toxic effluents straight into the rivers. So destructive were the… — Scott Wallace Dredges Copy Share Image
“Whatever its faults, and there were many, the system of identification, protection, and vigilance Possuelo had put in place was making a… — Scott Wallace Making a difference Copy Share Image
“The Indians fell ill predictably enough, but they didn’t come to Possuelo for help. Instead, they fled into the forest, further spreading… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
“The plane reportedly made a first pass over the village, dumping packets of sugar to lure a crowd to the central plaza.… — Scott Wallace Dropping Tnt Copy Share Image
