Jim Yost

Nothing thrills the Waoroani more than killing game and cutting down big trees. It's what so many people don't understand who haven't lived in the forest. You don't have to conserve what you don't have the power to destroy. Harming the forest is an impossible concept for them.

— Jim Yost, a missionary, quoted by Wade Davis in One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest (Simon & Schuster, 1996, 2007: Out of Print)


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