Will Davis
Will Davis
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.
heart eye lenses
The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.
unique reality other-cultures
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.
good man plenty says
Brisbane says I will get $50 about the first of October, which is plenty and enough for a young man who intends to be good to his folks.
beautiful cost deal divorce gets good marry soon witty woman
As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
days found landed remained soon stay ten though
As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.
boards built covered immense lies mountains pine
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.
bad cannot hand wish
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
along content difficult discomfort good health improve interested pleased sent temper
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.