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23 quotes by Alex Shoumatoff

Alexander "Alex" Shoumatoff (born November 4, 1946) is an American writer known for his literary journalism, nature and environmental writing, and books and magazine pieces about political and environmental situations and world affairs. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1978 to 1987, a founding contributing editor of Outside magazine and Condé Nast Traveler, and is currently the senior-most contributing editor to Vanity Fair...
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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 and Ontario are... →

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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, for getting at least... →

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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... →

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In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but... →

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No golfer's 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... →

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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.

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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 next big wars... →

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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 increasingly bigger part of... →

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'Ecological sensitivity' is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump. He doesn't even believe in global... →

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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 before we... →

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Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of... →

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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... →

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Neolithic peoples in Turkey in 6500 B.C. imitated the dances of cranes as part of marriage rituals. Dance is one thing cranes are credited by many... →

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