Davi Kopenawa Yanomami Quotes

• The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Asking For Help, Oil, People

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• Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Hurt, Believe, Long

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• If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  People, History, Humanity

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• There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Sky, Sick, Care

  "'People in the west live squeezed together, frenzied as wasps in the nest'". Interview with John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

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• The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.

  Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

  Ignorance, Land, Sky

  "'People in the west live squeezed together, frenzied as wasps in the nest'". Interview with John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

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