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Elephants Quotes by Richard Leakey
- The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
- The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the…
- Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across…
- Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are…
More Elephants Quotes
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. — Ritchie Blackmore
- We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do… — Madeleine Albright
- We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the… — Graydon Carter
- It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to… — Graydon Carter
- Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. — Charlie Chaplin
- What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am… — John Sedgwick
- The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants,… — T. Boone Pickens
- The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its… — Pliny the Elder
- I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at… — Sam Snead
- Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short… — Sally Ride