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> [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/)

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