Wade Davis Quotes

It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.

Writers are a product of where we come from, but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

Change is the raw material of history.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

In the late 20th century, it became possible to travel between cultures, between the old world and the new, with great ease. So when you go back, you take the changed person with you who, in turn, changes things that otherwise might have stayed the same.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

Empires being neither up nor down do not fall. They change their appearance.

The customs of the [Khmer] barbarians are so different from our own that even if we were to capture all their territory, it would not be certain that we could change them.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

Immigrants are changed by the greater society. Immigrants change the greater society.

Each and every civilization in the world is in complete concordance with its people and their condition of living. If a civilization loses this equilibrium it will be lost itself. The inharmonious civilizations die because of their lack of harmony and those who survive are in complete harmony with the changing conditions. The best way of coping with these ever-increasing changes is to come together with the other civilizations.