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One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.
Carlos Castaneda
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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
Bill Mollison
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Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.
Pierre Bourdieu
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The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.
Noam Chomsky
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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.
Wade Davis
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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.
Wade Davis
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
Wade Davis
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
Wade Davis
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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
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Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel
Wade Davis
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So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.
Wade Davis
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Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.
Wade Davis
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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
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Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.
Wade Davis
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The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
Wade Davis
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Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.
Wade Davis
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I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.
Dian Fossey
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Donald Johanson
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The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
Wallace Tripp
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The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
Wallace Tripp
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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
Terence McKenna
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Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
China Mieville
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How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.
Joan Halifax
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Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
Immanuel Kant
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