181 Quotes About Elephants

If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.

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.

If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.

By acknowledging how ridiculous something is, people know what’s real again. We need those refreshers. It’s amazing how out of touch people can be when pretending there’s no elephant in the room. People must be elephant finders. But not of those big, monstrous, disgusting elephants, but the cute tiny ones in the room that we were each privately suspecting.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants.

Sweet Elephant of the Morning by Stewart StaffordO sweet elephant of the morning,What loud noise you make,With your leaden feet,And trumpet voice.You spray water,On your thick, dusty skin,And on anyone in proximity,To your body.Your trunk is a grey, reaching arm,And your tusks resemble curved lances,Or elongated walrus teeth,To fight off rivals.© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.

Elephants operate on a steadfast principle that all other lifeforms must give way to them, and as far as they were concerned, foreign tourists at a sit down dinner around a swimming pool were no different than a troop of baboons at a swimming hole.

If you do not have a memory like an elephant, leave impressions like one.