Elephants Quote by Beryl Markham

[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another,…

— Beryl Markham

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we…

— Alex Shoumatoff

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

— Gloria Steinem

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

— Frans de Waal

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Elephants are magnificient creatures.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s…

— Daphne Sheldrick

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common…

— Lyall Watson

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

— Mark Shand

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we…

— Graydon Carter

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions--it is natural to conclude that animals…

— Linda Bender