“And finally, in the end, I think it’s pretty obvious at least to all of all us who’ve travelled in these remote reaches of the planet, to realize that they’re not remote at all. They’re homelands of somebody. They represent branches of the human imagination that go back to the dawn of time. And for all of us, the dreams of these children, like the dreams of our own children, become part of the naked geography of hope.

So, what we’re trying to do at the National Geographic, finally, is, we believe that politicians will never accomplish anything. We think that polemics — (Applause) — we think that polemics are not persuasive, but we think that storytelling can change the world, and so we are probably the best storytelling institution in the world. We get 35 million hits on our website every month. 156 nations carry our television channel. Our magazines are read by millions. And what we’re doing is a series of journeys to the ethnosphere where we’re going to take our audience to places of such cultural wonder that they cannot help but come away dazzled by what they have seen, and hopefully, therefore, embrace gradually, one by one, the central revelation of anthropology: that this world deserves to exist in a diverse way, that we can find a way to live in a truly multicultural, pluralistic world where all of the wisdom of all peoples can contribute to our collective well-being.”

―  Wade Davis, Cultures at the far edge of the world

It’s 12  : 17 PM on day 1184 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  pray,  brush my teeth, read 1 Chronicles 17,  publish my Disability of the Day feature,  feed myself  a scrambled egg sandwich and banana for breakfast,  practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles and hang out with my family.