The ethnosphere is the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.
Wade Davis Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 14th December, 1953 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Anthropologist, Author |
About
Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti.
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