#elephant

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves. ↗

— Lawrence Anthony

#animals #elephants #inspirational #inspirational

It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#hunting #life

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#appropriate #developing #elephant #example #for example

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#i #like #look #own #want

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beyond #books #eat #elephant #especially

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#discuss #elephant #race #room #still

Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this talent. The day his life was turned completely upside down, he was caught unaware. ↗

— Jennifer Richard Jacobson

#elephants #life

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? ↗

— David Attenborough

#book #elephant #except #grandchildren #happy

I couldn't have been more shocked if he pulled a pink elephant out of his ass! ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#elephant #humor #shock #death