Wade Davis
Wade Davis
Wade Allen Davisis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball. From 2009 through 2012, he played for the Tampa Bay Rays...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth7 September 1985
CityLake Wales, FL
keys use cold
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.
world haunting extinction
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
quality doe aspiration
The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
buddhism years mind
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
motivation inspiration people
Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
past essence survival
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.
solitude risk understanding
Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.
real moving our-world
The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow reduced to margins of history as the real world [(our world)] moves on We will be known as an era in which we stood by and either actively endorsed or passively accepted the massive destruction of both biological and cultural diversity on the planet.
memories cutting achievement
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.
animal fire-burning flames
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times.
earth sun fabric
The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.
spring men views
Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.
vocabulary mind growth
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
lonely children fate
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.