Defeat Quote by Clarence Day

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come -…

— Peter Matthiessen

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

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living…

— Virginia McKenna

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

It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant…

— Dan Chiasson

Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge,…

— Margrethe Vestager

“For the herds of wild elephants show no resentment when domesticated animals join them. They have none of that herd instinct directed against the…

— Lt.-Col. J. H. Williams O.B.E

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

People don't realize how amazing elephants are.

— Prince Harry

“Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk…but give not a…

— John Napier

I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There…

— Peter Matthiessen

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes…

— Mark Shand