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Change is no threat to culture.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Culture
Threat
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Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Forests
Growth
Mind
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Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.
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Risk
Solitude
Understanding
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Culture
Paper
Would Be
Bold
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So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.
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Destiny
Giving
Patient
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Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Drink
Haiti
Rum
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Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel
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Chapel
Oil
Sacred
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The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
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Quality
Aspiration
Doe
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The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.
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Earth
Fabric
Sun
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Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Extinction
Half
Haunting
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Extinction
Half
Haunting
Brink
Languages
Realize
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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 / Anthropologist
Buddhism
Mind
Years
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You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Arctic
Cold
Keys
Made
Use
Solid
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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.
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Brave
Courageous
Determined
Discreet
Grit
Hero
Perfect
Heroes
Never
Authentic
Got
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A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Inspiration
Motivation
Vocabulary
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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.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Dance
Constant
Culture
Engaged
Human History
Life Changing
New Possibilities
Possibility
Life Change Time
Cultures
Possibilities
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To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Inspiration
Motivation
Sea
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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 manifestations of the human spirit.
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Inspirational
Spiritual
Unique
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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.
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Axes
Memories
Past
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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, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
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Inspiration
Motivation
People
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The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
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Eye
Heart
Lenses
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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 no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Wisdom
Anticipate
Children
Elders
Fate
Lonely
Native
Plight
Promise
Silence
Speak
Tongue
Tragic
Two Weeks
Somewhere
Weeks
Indeed
Pass
Roughly
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If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.
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Choices
Cutting
Memories
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Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.
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Men
Skills
Spring
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The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.
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Moving
Our World
Real
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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 past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.
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Essence
Past
Survival
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If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most important challenge of our times.
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Animal
Flames
Opposites
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We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.
Wade Davis / Anthropologist
Cities
Country
Dog
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