#elephants

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I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.


Sara Gruen


#gruen #water-for-elephants #men

An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.


Mas'udi


#elephants #war #men

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

Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come - seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.


Peter Matthiessen


#life

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

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.


Robert Novak


#bunch #clothes #democratic #democratic party #donkey

Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.


Ferdowsi


#could #elephants #helmet #host #jewels

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back


Sara Gruen


#age

The Babar the Elephant book is sitting in front of me. I pick it up and start reading it. I remember reading it as a small Boy and enjoying it and imagining that I was friends with Babar, his constant Companion during all of his adventures. He went to the moon, I went with him. He fought Tomb Raiders in Egypt, I fought alongside him. He rescued his elephant girlfriend from Ivory Hunters on the Savanna, I coordinated the getaway. I loved that goddamn Elephant and I loved being his friend. In a childhood full of unhappiness and rage, Babar is one of the few pleasant memories that I have. Me and Babar, kicking some motherfucking ass.


James Frey


#childhood #elephants #reading #imagination

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.


Sara Gruen


#water