Live well Quote by Scott Wallace

“admired, even emulated. “You saw for yourselves, the Indian doesn’t need the white man to live,” he went on. “He knows how to make arrows, blowguns, ceramics, curare. He has everything he needs to live well.” quote by Scott Wallace — Download Open image

““admired, even emulated. “You saw for yourselves, the Indian doesn’t need the white man to live,” he went on. “He knows how to make arrows, blowguns, ceramics, curare. He has everything he needs to live well.””

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