Like the burning of the ancient library at Alexandria or the supremely ignorant incineration of stacks of invaluable Mayan codices, the loss of knowledge we are experiencing as the last of the traditional elders pass from this physical plane of exist...
Before my first visit to Waorani territory, I was introduced to don Casimiro Mamallacta, a traditional Kichwa healer and family man living in the outskirts of the jungle town of Archidona, by his daughter Mercedes, whom I met at the Jatun Sacha biolo...
The Secoya are trapped between the devastating effects of the colonization frontier and their rich traditional past, which is proving to be as fragile a reality and as fleeting a memory as the most powerful visions of their esoteric science. But inst...
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is...
And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much...
Capt. Jack Aubrey: Killick, an extra ration of rum for these men. Joseph Nagle, Carpenter's Mate: Thank you very much, sir. William Warley, Cpt. of Mizzentop: Thank you, sir. Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward: Which I was savin' for Salutin' Day, ...
Protectionist measures may permit domestic industries to thrive, which under free trade would wither in the face of cheap imports. Imports may be opposed by the government in the public interest--for example because it thinks it imprudent to rely upo...
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
A preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking
The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
May God preserve you and watch over you.
An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
