Wade Davis

Landscape can create character...

"" What happens when a people don't put that mental ingenuity into creating cities
and electronic technologies, but rather put it into exploring the metaphysical realm, or the realm of plants?" The work I did in Haiti showed me, powerfully, that different cultural realities create very different human beings whose capacities are proudly different. Landscape can create character. Lawrence Durrell once said you could depopulate France, resettle it with Tartars and find to your astonishment that, within a generation or so, the same national traits would re-emerge- the love of fine food and wine, the reflexive disdain for Americans- all of this would sort of pop out of the ground of the soil of France.
But culture also informs landscape...."

-Wade Davis, Visionary Plant Consciousness