Quotes by : Wade Davis

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

Culture is not trivial. It is not a decoration or artifice, the songs we sing or even the prayers we....

She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she....

Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They....

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life.....

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts....

The full measure of a culture embraces both the actions of a people and the quality of their aspirations,....

There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity....

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa,....

They brought their whole intellectual energy to bear on their relationships; they wanted to know not....