Admire Quote by Graydon Carter

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

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

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

I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities —…

— Pat Derby

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 suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to…

— Clarence Day

“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 very sensitive to smell and they tend to recognise us by our body odour.

— Thalaivasal Vijay

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

— Ingrid Newkirk

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

— Pierre Corneille

[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