--- title: "4 Elephants Quotes By Beryl Markham" description: "4 Elephants quotes by Beryl Markham. Plus more from Beryl Markham and more Elephants sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/beryl-markham-6709_adaptable_elephants-are-less-agile-and-physically_1121802.jpg" --- > [ \[Elephants\] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/elephants-are-less-agile-and-physically-less-adaptable-than-ourselves/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/beryl-markham-6709_adaptable_elephants-are-less-agile-and-physically_1121802.jpg) > [“Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/elephant-beyond-the-fact-that-their-size-and-conformation-are/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eda/beryl-markham-6709_elephant_elephant-beyond-the-fact-that-their-size_1664996.jpg) > [It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/it-is-absurd-for-a-man-to-kill-an-elephant-it-is-not-brutal-it-is-not/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f2/beryl-markham-6709_absurd_it-is-absurd-for-a-man-to-kill-an-elepha_1969656.png) > [I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/i-suppose-if-there-were-a-part-of-the-world-in-which-mastodon-still/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f11/beryl-markham-6709_design_i-suppose-if-there-were-a-part-of-the-wo_2647024.png) ## Other authors on Elephants - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dan-greenburg-26191.jpg) Mark Shand 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/elephants/mark-shand/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gautama-buddha-37107.jpg) Gautama Buddha 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/elephants/gautama-buddha/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/elephants/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-hurt-51650.jpg) John Hurt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/elephants/john-hurt/) ## More by Beryl Markham > [I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/i-have-lifted-my-plane-for-perhaps-a-thousand-flights-and-i-have/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [“(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/quoting-her-friend-tom-black-on-an-amateur-hunter-s-injury-lion/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/the-only-disadvantage-in-surviving-a-dangerous-experience-lies-in-the/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [“All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/all-this-and-discontent-too-otherwise-why-am-i-sitting-here-dreaming/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/we-swung-over-the-hills-and-over-the-town-and-back-again-and-i-saw/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [there are many Africas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-are-many-africas/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/talk-lives-in-a-man-s-head-but-sometimes-it-is-very-lonely-because-in/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-is-a-certain-silence-that-can-emanate-from-a-lifeless-object-as/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [ \[The lion\] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/the-lion-began-to-contemplate-me-with-a-kind-of-quiet-premeditation/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/from-the-time-i-arrived-in-british-east-africa-at-the-indifferent-age/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/but-for-a-little-while-this-is-the-place-for-us-a-good-place-too-a/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-are-all-kinds-of-silences-and-each-of-them-means-a-different/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-are-as-many-africas-as-there-are-books-about-africa-and-as-many/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/there-s-an-old-adage-he-said-translated-from-the-ancient-coptic-that/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) > [The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beryl-markham/the-way-to-find-a-needle-in-a-haystack-is-to-sit-down/) [Beryl Markham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beryl-markham/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/elephants/beryl-markham/#itemlist", "name": "4 Elephants Quotes By Beryl Markham", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. 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