Will Davis
Will Davis
mind growth forests
Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
destiny giving patient
So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.
memories past axes
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.
life-changing culture possibility
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.
motivation inspiration sea
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.
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.