55 Quotes by Wade Davis

The full measure of a culture embraces both the actions of a people and the quality of their aspirations, the nature of the metaphors that propel their lives. And no description of a people can be complete without reference to the character of their homeland, the ecological and geographical matrix in which they have determined to live out their destiny. Just as a landscape defines character, culture springs from a spirit of place.

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

It was amusing to look at that colorful case so symbolic of an entire nation. Haiti, it is said, is the place to discover how much can be done with little.

There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.

A simple intuition, a single observation, can open vistas of unimagined potential. Once caught in the web of an idea, the researcher is happily doomed, for the outcome is always uncertain, and the resolution of the mystery may take years to unfold. Such was the case in my encounter with the magic toads of the Americas.

to find those great stories of wonder found within various cultures that teach us something about human experience.

I threw too many pitches but I guess it was solid for my first outing.

Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.

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