Apes Quote by Frans de Waal

[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

“Elephant, beyond the fact that their size and conformation are aesthetically more suited to the treading of this earth than our angular informity, have…

— Beryl Markham

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

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

— Margrethe Vestager

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

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

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

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

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which…

— Diane Ackerman

Do you know what else thinks? Elephants. Thats right elephants. You know they have the largest brain in the animal kingdom.

— Bagwell (from Prisom Break

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

— Leon Kass