Wade Davis
Wade Davis
Wade Allen Davisis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball. From 2009 through 2012, he played for the Tampa Bay Rays...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth7 September 1985
CityLake Wales, FL
Wade Davis quotes about
ecosystem forest language spiritual
Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.
guess pitches solid threw
I threw too many pitches but I guess it was solid for my first outing.
vocabulary mind growth
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.
motivation inspiration people
Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
buddhism years mind
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
keys use cold
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
motivation inspiration sea
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.
life-changing culture possibility
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
solitude risk understanding
Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.
oil sacred drilling
Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel
haiti drink rum
Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.
country dog government
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.
hero perfect brave
Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.
culture paper would-be
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.