“Even now I am haunted by the touching look of the young, bright, anxious eyes as we passed along the rows of… — Wade Davis War Copy Share Image
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Extinction 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… — Wade Davis Accepting Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations. — Wade Davis Achievement 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… — Wade Davis Destruction 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… — Wade Davis Anthropology 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… — 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… — Wade Davis Complexes 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… — Wade Davis Adaptive Copy Share Image
So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you. — Wade Davis Be patient Copy Share Image
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use… — Wade Davis Arctic 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 Culture Copy Share Image
The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow… — Wade Davis Accepted 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 Ancient 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 Accepting Copy Share Image
“A simple intuition, a single observation, can open vistas of unimagined potential. Once caught in the web of an idea, the researcher… — Wade Davis Inquiry Copy Share Image
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings… — Wade Davis Baroque Copy Share Image
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native… — Wade Davis Anticipate Copy Share Image
Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god. — Wade Davis Drink 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 All time Copy Share Image
“I want to lose all harshness of jagged nerves, to be above all gentle. I feel we have achieved victory for that… — Wade Davis War 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 Culture Copy Share Image
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind? — Wade Davis Buddhism Copy Share Image
