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....

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

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,....

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort....

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