Wade Davis Quotes

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

Perfect, Brave, Courageous

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.
Wade Davis

Life, Change, Time

Change is no threat to culture.
Wade Davis

Change, Culture, Threat

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Wade Davis

Realize, Half, Languages

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

Rather, Culture, Individual

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.
Wade Davis

Fear, Once, Cold

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis

Wisdom, Lonely, Children

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: December 14, 1953

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