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Magdalena: River of Dreams QUOTES

Magdalena: River of Dreams QUOTES

1 " In Africa, there is no separation between the sacred and the secular, between the holy and the profane, between the material and the spiritual. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

2 " He had nothing modern and yet he lived to a hundred and ten. Why? Because he lived in a world that made sense. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

3 " the drum is joy and the river is joy, which is why so many songs name the Magdalena. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

4 " They fish with kites, crafted of plastic and small bits of wood, that rise in the wind and carry their long lines, rigged with perhaps a dozen hooks, "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

5 " for the government to clean and bring life back to the Río Magdalena. All of it. That’s what we want. And that’s what the country needs. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

6 " Peel back the moments of any place, day, or time in Colombia, dig through the memories of any family, and you will always find the Río Magdalena. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

7 " dig through the memories of any family, and you will always find the Río Magdalena. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

8 " Rodrigo de Bastidas, sailing across the mouth in 1501, had named the river El Río Grande de la Magdalena. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

9 " María Magdalena always stood tall, the spiritual watchtower of the world. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

10 " The cartels rose out of the barrios and country clubs of Medellín and Cali, but the ultimate responsibility for Colombia’s agonies lies in good measure with every person who has ever bought street cocaine and every foreign nation that has made possible the illicit market by prohibiting the drug without curbing its use in any serious way. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

11 " in the same way the church slandered María Magdalena, we soiled the river, "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

12 " turning an artery of life into a conduit of death. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

13 " We declared it beyond hope, its condition irredeemable, absolving ourselves of any responsibility for its fate "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

14 " fought alongside men, enjoying complete political and military authority. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

15 " Breastplates worn by both men and women as symbols of virility and fertility. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

16 " the Spanish colony turned to Africa. Of the more than ten million men and women dragged in bondage to the Americas over three centuries, some four hundred thousand came to Colombia, nearly twice the number of immigrants that arrived from Spain over those same years. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

17 " to deny the Río Magdalena is to betray all that we are as Colombians. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

18 " They, too, had little to say about the achievements of their mysterious forefathers. Memories were faint after five centuries. "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

19 " Americas over three centuries, some four hundred thousand came to Colombia, "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams

20 " The Zenú as a people survive "

― Wade Davis , Magdalena: River of Dreams