"In my travels, I have encountered cranes on……" — Alex Shoumatoff
"In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents."
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16 Quotes by Alex Shoumatoff
Alex Shoumatoff has 16 quotes on this site.
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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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Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of…
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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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More Continents Quotes
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one of 429 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth,…
— Annie Besant
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
— James Agee
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look…
— Bono
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
— Italo Calvino
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer…
— Richard Lamm
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