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.
Wade DavisIn 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.
Wade DavisIts haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Wade Davis