Elephants Quotes - Page 16

• To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

  John Dewey

  Life, Pain, Science

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• When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Animal, Ideas

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• Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Death, Car, Dying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

  Victoria Moran

  Horse, Strong, Animal

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• That don't look good," Kramisha said. "Not good at all." She paused and then her eyes went from me to Heath, whose attention was so focused on me I swear he didn't look like he would notice if a giant white elephant in a tutu danced around the room. "Ain't that the human kid who was down here before?

  P. C. Cast

  Kids, Eye, White

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.83, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Dancing, Exotic

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• Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Nature, Science, Oil

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• I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.

  James Lee

  Dream, Home, Dark

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• Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Journey, Perfection

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

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• Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

  William Faulkner

  Giving, Caviar, Pointless

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• We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Littles, Rats, Speak

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.

  Billy Wilder

  Animal, Turkeys, Littles

  "Fictional character: "Bim" Nolan". "The Lost Weekend", 1945.

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• In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.

  John Reader

  Science, Apples, Years

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• If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

  Saadi

  Art, Lions, Opinion

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• Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

  James Lee

  Squirrels, Turtles, Sharks

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• So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

  Jonathan Swift

  Savages, Maps, Want

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• The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant - but waiting a few hundred thousand years for neurons to sprout into our brains - ones capable of having us create emotional relationships with other members of our species. We thereby double our biomass not by getting bigger, but by creating an ally.

  John Medina

  Emotional, Years, Creating

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant.

  Alan Weisman

  Running, New York, Fall

  Source: www.today.com

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• In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Color, Snakes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.

  Christoph Waltz

  Distance, Ideas, Next

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority.

  Allen Crawford

  Law, People, Priorities

  "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

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• A lot of my dreams have to do with animals I think because I'm such a huge animal lover. I have so many pets. I always have crazy dreams where I'm like riding an elephant through the jungle or hanging out with a bunch of monkeys.

  Paris Hilton

  Dream, Crazy, Animal

  "The return of Paris Hilton". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I have little space from the suffering of elephants right now. I wake up with it and go to sleep with it. The plight of animals in shelters, of kids used for labor for the metals in our electronics and endless other things, the fate of our water supply to dye our blue jeans and water our lawns, the sad painful life of conventionally raised meat...For me, I am working to not contribute to this. I really don't want to hurt others for my benefit.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Hurt, Sleep, Kids

  "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.

  Veronika Varekova

  Army, Government, Perfect

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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