3 Quotes by Pat Derby

You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities – wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty – but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.