55 Quotes by Wade Davis

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

Change is no threat to culture.

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

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

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.

To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.