Alex Shoumatoff Quotes

• 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 are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Rip, Home, Cutting

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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 moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Emotional, Clouds, Elephants

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• No golfers journey is complete without a pilgrimage to St. Andrews, the mecca of the game. This is where it all began, back in the 15th and 16th centuries.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Journey, Games, Mecca

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• In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Three, Cranes, Continents

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