“The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.” ShouldChildrenCultureBravePreservesLamentJaguars Author:John Burnham Schwartz
“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.” WorldShouldHumansChildrenLongRealCultureNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalFictionMoralNovelBraveBrilliantTreatedStorytellingPreservesComplexityHumankindNatural WorldNon FictionLamentVisceralDebutAmbivalentJaguars Author:John Burnham Schwartz
“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsFirstsLongStillsI CanHelpingAgeCultureFoundMy OwnActingStepsInfluenceModernFirst TimeStonesWesternHelping OthersPreservesHeritageDefiniteAmazedLong WayIntegratedPlaces In The WorldRelicsStone AgeModern DanceDance Steps Author:Paul Robeson
“We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?” WellsCultureCitiesGrowingFrontsNew YorkTownsWavePreservesNew York CityCheerfulSmall TownSubwayPorchFront Porches Author:Jimmy Wales
“It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.” IfsShouldBelieveHas BeensGovernmentMightCultureSpeakInterestPowerfulCrazyPolicyTraditionArguingPreservesOfficialsMost PowerfulSpeak The TruthBeing CrazyGovernment OfficialsGovernment Policy Book:Free Culture Source: Free Culture
“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.” IfsWantSelfCareCultureLostSinKindnessDestructionPreservesSelf DestructionParentalOmissionFosteringCastaway Book:Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition
“You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.” CultureGonePreservesPessimisticRhinos Author:Paul Theroux