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....

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

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

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,....

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold,....

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