---
title: "1 Amazon Basin Quotes By Alex Shoumatoff"
description: "1 Amazon Basin quotes by Alex Shoumatoff. Plus more from Alex Shoumatoff and more Amazon Basin sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e4/alex-shoumatoff-25223_actually_most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a_239248.jpg"
---

> [Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a-pancake-and-laced-with/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e4/alex-shoumatoff-25223_actually_most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a_239248.jpg)

## More by Alex Shoumatoff

> [If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/if-the-world-were-an-orange-with-18-segments-meeting-at-the-top-the/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/nature-got-it-right-with-the-cranes-they-have-been-around-since-the/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/even-as-global-warming-increases-the-frequency-of-el-nino-and-the/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a-pancake-and-laced-with/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/before-you-rip-off-three-feet-of-toilet-paper-consider-that-each-year/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/elephants-are-not-human-of-course-they-are-something-much-more/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/the-mammoth-was-basically-done-in-by-climate-change-the-last-ones/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/the-day-we-dispose-of-the-idea-of-disposability-will-be-a-great-one/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/in-1990-my-wife-and-i-were-married-in-her-village-in-southwestern/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/as-technology-keeps-improving-the-price-of-oil-keeps-rising-and-the/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/in-the-70s-florida-style-golf-communities-started-to-be-built-for/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/trump-has-got-to-be-one-of-the-most-branded-people-on-the-planet-you/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/elephants-are-highly-emotional-whatever-they-are-feeling-they-let-it/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> ['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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/ecological-sensitivity-is-not-the-first-thing-that-comes-to-mind-when/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

> [The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/the-global-climate-is-a-complex-interactive-system-with-all-kinds-of/)

[Alex Shoumatoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-shoumatoff/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/alex-shoumatoff/#itemlist",
            "name": "1 Amazon Basin Quotes By Alex Shoumatoff",
            "numberOfItems": 1,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Alex Shoumatoff"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-shoumatoff/most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a-pancake-and-laced-with/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e4/alex-shoumatoff-25223_actually_most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a_239248.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e4/alex-shoumatoff-25223_actually_most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a_239248.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e4/alex-shoumatoff-25223_actually_most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a_239248.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One…” — Alex Shoumatoff",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/alex-shoumatoff/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/alex-shoumatoff/",
            "name": "Amazon Basin Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/alex-shoumatoff/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e4/alex-shoumatoff-25223_actually_most-of-the-amazon-basin-is-as-flat-as-a_239248.jpg"
            },
            "description": "1 Amazon Basin quotes by Alex Shoumatoff. Plus more from Alex Shoumatoff and more Amazon Basin sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/alex-shoumatoff/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/alex-shoumatoff/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Amazon Basin",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Alex Shoumatoff",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazon-basin/alex-shoumatoff/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```