22 Quotes by Mark Shand

People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.

I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.

Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.