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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Ancient Arrived Before Being Changed Course Destructive Different Elephants Existence Fundamentally Human Living Long More Much Out Plane Predatory Scene Something Sustainable Way Worked World

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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Apart Cloud Coming Constantly Elephants Emotional Feeling Forgotten Highly Immediately Lasting Longer Moment Out Over Overhead Than Whatever

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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Above Alaska Arctic Canada Circle Denmark Just Just One Lies Meeting North Norway Only Orange Pole Roughly Russia Sea Segments Sweden Them Top Were World Would

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No golfer's journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Back Began Centuries Complete Game Golfer Journey Mecca Pilgrimage Where Without

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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Acres Bears Before Being Billions Communities Consider Each Each Year Feet First Forest Forests Home Make Moose Nation Northern Off Ontario Paper Rip Some Stuff Summertime Three Toilet Toilet Paper Well Wolves Year You

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In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Around Couple Days Dozen Feathers Her Married Three Uganda Village Were While Wife Yellow

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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Among Back Closure Compensation Descendants Families Form Getting Holocaust Horrors Interest Least Lot Some Victims Visited Were

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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Adaptive Amazon Any Around Dozen Easily Forest Forests Humans Met More Move Only Other People Rain Reduced Size Smaller Species Than You

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'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global warming. But this is because he is a city boy.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Because Believe Boy City Donald Donald Trump Ecological Even First First Thing Global Global Warming He Mind Sensitivity The First Thing Thing Think Trump Warming You

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In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: America Built Clubs Communities Doing Exclusive Families Game Get Golf Live Looking Nice Place Raise Started Taking Tennis Up Well Were Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 4th, 1946

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