Quotes by : Wade Davis

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

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous....

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.....

What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You....

It was more than love at first sight. For Mallory it was as if a dam had burst and the impounded emotions....

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....