Paradigm shift Quote by Matthew Scully

“Elephants in all the worlds zoos in old age yearn until one morning they say we will set off on a journey carrying hidden…

— Mario Payeras

“The morality which emerges from the observation of the whole animal kingdom may be summed up in the words: "Do to others what you…

— Peter Kropotkin

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

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

— Peter Matthiessen

“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

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will…

— Michael Pollan

“Service for the Right Reasons: To Save the Whales, or Kill Them and Feed the Children? Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward…

— Timothy Ferriss

“The amorality of nature is accepted, whether it takes the form of a monsoon, an elephant in musth, or a disease; but being subjected…

— Oliver Sacks

“Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without…

— Paul Chambers

“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

“The white hunter was laughing happily, his adoring girl was open-mouthed in admiration for his nerve, I was sweating with dismay and outrage, and…

— Martha Gellhorn

“I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that are reputed…

— Virginia Woolf