“What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.”
Quote by Wade Davis
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Wade Davis
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