Alex Shoumatoff Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.”

“If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.”