Huaorani chant, "the forest is our life"
1940 CE - present • Ecuador
"Look at the land. Our grandfather lived here. So do we. It is our land here, here we used to live. Stranger, touring around you will not come, you will not come. We lived over these hills, we still do, because the forest is our life."
translated by Laura Rival, in Judith Kimerling et al., Amazon Crude (New York, NY: NRDC: 1991), introduction.
Image: Dallas Krentzel via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
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