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#elephant

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They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.


Robert R. McCammon


#death #elephants #death

Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.


Alfred Tennyson


#elephant-man #infinity #inspirational #life #nature

I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.


Beryl Markham


#hunting #death

Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants.


Lloyd Alexander


#humor #nature

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.


George Orwell


#man #shooting-an-elephant #hypocrisy

Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.


Lawrence Anthony


#endangered-species #environmentalism #science #science

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.


Robert T. Bakker


#animal #bad #biggest #danger #determined

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?


David Brin


#does #elephant #enough #getting #heartbeats

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.


James Patterson


#humor #humor

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.


Richard Leakey


#big #elephants #even #hotels #killed






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