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“Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.”

Quote by Wade Davis

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Wade Davis is a Canadian-born anthropologist, ethnobotanist, and author born December 14, 1953. He serves as Professor of Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of British Columbia and is a former Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic. Davis is renowned for his research on indigenous cultures in the Amazon and Himalayas, with major works including The Serpent and the Rainbow and Into the Silence. His career focuses on preserving cultural diversity and traditional ecological knowledge. more

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“In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.”

Past Memories Promise West Meaningless Haiti Axes

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“Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.”

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“The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.”

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“Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.”

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“So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.”

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“If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.”

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“Change is no threat to culture.”

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“All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.”

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“On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.”

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“The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.”