Time Quote by Danez Smith

“But yet, but yet . . . the night he died, they [the elephants] were right there outside his house. And they came every…

— Lawrence Anthony

“It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The trees were like black skeletons reaching to the sky, pleading with their bony arms for the sun to get stronger.”

— J.R. Ward

“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“After weeks in the forest, the woods embrace us as their own, and the wilderness hums softly, attuned to our souls.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

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

— Peter Matthiessen

“Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff. They may…

— André Aciman

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I once got lost in a dark woods with no supplies. Struggling to deal with nature, beasts and storms, that was time when I…

— Toba Beta

“On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals kill to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.”

— Alice Walker