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14 November 2002
 Wole
Soyinka
1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
“A lot more has to be done in the non-monumental aspect of World Heritage. It’s very easy to recognise the massive concretisation of culture. … I am far more concerned with the intangible expressions of culture. They are often more valuable, and should concern us more as humanists. Think of the adaptive intelligence of societies, some of whose manifestations go back centuries and millennia. You can wipe away all of that in the name of progress. There are also time-tested ways of adjusting to nature, which are threatened by genetic tampering with indigenous species, for example.”
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