"Elephants are not human, of course. They are……" — 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 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."
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16 Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff
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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…
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Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten…
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There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by…
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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.…
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them…
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until…
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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to…
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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the…
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict…
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The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
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