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.
Wade DavisAll 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 DavisWe accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.
Wade Davis