The Way I See It #29
On my Starbucks cup this morning:
"Every language is an old-grown forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities. Of the 6,000 languages spoken today, fully half are not being taught to children. Evry two weeks an elder dies and carries into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue. Within a generation or two we are losing half of humanity's social, cultural and intellectual legacy."
-- Dr. Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
"Every language is an old-grown forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities. Of the 6,000 languages spoken today, fully half are not being taught to children. Evry two weeks an elder dies and carries into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue. Within a generation or two we are losing half of humanity's social, cultural and intellectual legacy."
-- Dr. Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence
posted by Amanda at 7:58 AM
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