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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 DavisWade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
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“All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities of life.”
— Wade DavisWade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
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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 DavisWade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
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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.”
— Wade DavisWade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
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“The ethnosphere is humanity’s great legacy. It’s the symbol of all that we are and all that we can be as an astonishingly inquisitive species.”
— Wade DavisWade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
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“[The ethnosphere is] the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.”
— Wade DavisWade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures
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“The Keystone and the Enbridge pipelines … are just elements of a tsunami of industrial development that is sweeping across all of the wild country of northern Canada.”
— Wade DavisWade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving
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