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Alex Shoumatoff has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 3,700 years…
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As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an…
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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 fertilizer is…
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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 that the…
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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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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be…
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants…
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A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a…
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Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…
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If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.
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It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing…
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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one…
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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over…
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One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion…
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