Change Is No Threat To Culture.

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.

The Problem Is That Those Of Us Sympathetic With The Plight Of Indigenous People View Them As Quaint And Colorful, But Somehow Reduced To Margins Of History As The Real World [(our World)] Moves On We Will Be Known As An Era In Which We Stood By And Either Actively Endorsed Or Passively Accepted The Massive Destruction Of Both Biological And Cultural Diversity On The Planet.

Only, In Haiti, I Realized, Is It Possible To Drink Rum And Haggle With A God.

Language Is An Old-growth Forest Of The Mind.

Change Is No Threat To Culture.