Wade Davis
"Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo."
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"Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo."
"بقاء الثقافة ليس حفظًا لها، أو عزل الشعوب الأصيلة في جيوب مغلقة كأنها عينات حيوانية. فالتغيير بحد ذاته لا يدمر الثقافة؛ فجميع المجتمعات تتطور باستمرار. بل إن الثقافة تبقى حية عندما تمتلك ثقة كافية بماضيها، وصوتًا مسموعًا في مستقبلها، لتصون روحها وجوهرها عبر كل التحولات التي لا مفر منها."
Wade Davis
Light at the Edge of the World
"In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises."
"في الغرب، نتشبث بالماضي كالمحار. أما في هايتي، فالحاضر هو محور الحياة كلها. وكما في أفريقيا، الماضي والمستقبل ليسا سوى مقياسين بعيدين للحاضر، والذكريات لا معنى لها كوعود."
Wade Davis
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic
"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."
"تدرك، ما إن يتجمد شيء، حتى يصبح صلبًا. هذا هو سر القطب الشمالي – لم يخشوا البرد، بل استثمروه."
Wade Davis
"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."
"تَوَالَتِ الثقافاتُ على مَرِّ العصورِ، وهي دائبةٌ في رقصةٍ أبديةٍ مع إمكانياتِ الحياةِ المتجددةِ. فالتغييرُ هو الثابتُ الوحيدُ في تاريخِ البشريةِ."
Wade Davis
"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit."
Wade Davis
"The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations."
Wade Davis
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