"The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them."

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Source : "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

Ciro Guerra

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #World Quotes

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”

Source : George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.704, Wordsworth Editions
“They say crying makes the heart lighter”
“Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like”
“I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.”
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished”
“One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.”
“It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, â€˜There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this timeâ€™; or, â€˜We should wait until present ones are improved.â€™”
“Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.”

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