14 Quotes by Eric Hansen

There's clearly an acknowledgment at the management level that there's a pending crisis.

A lot of young kids played. We pulled the (starters) with eight minutes to go in the second quarter. They were without two of their best players.

Always run to, not from, it gives your life purpose.

We might laugh at the notion of plastic tea sets in the jungle, but it is a time-honored ritual for Western travelers to collect preindustrial artifacts to use as home decorations... Possession of primitive artifacts suggests worldly knowledge, just as in the highland communities of Borneo an electronic wristwatch that plays “Happy Birthday” is the mark of a great traveler. Funny thing how travel can narrow the mind.

Government observers, keen on getting the Penan out of the valuable hardwood forests, have claimed that Penan health is poor and that they are malnourished. This is a ploy to get them settled so they can be controlled. Also, it is a source of embarrassment to the governments of Malaysia and Indonesia that in the 1980s, nomadic hunters are still roaming the jungles. This doesn’t help the national image of a modern, developing country.