Wade Davis Quotes

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• Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.
• Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
• The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique…
• The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.
• 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…
• If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for…
• What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have…
• Change is no threat to culture.
• All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

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