The very desire to preserve animals was a subjective sentiment of fail in the animal's intrinsic worth. It was a feeling possessed by most of the scientists there, who regarded the wildebeeste migration with the same awe that others feel for the Mona Lisa, but they would not admit this sentiment into their arguments because it could not be backed up by facts; the right and worng of aesthetics being imponderables not open to scientific analysis. At the end of the meeting there was a consensus of opinion on only one fact, that there was an urgent need for research before taking any hasty action.
Iain Douglas-HamiltonTag: scientists conservation preservation elephant intrinsic-worth
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.
Mary McCarthyThey can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?
Adam RexTag: funny zoo t-shirt elephant
The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.
Jonathan HaidtTag: life happiness philosophy jon jonathan elephant haidt mindfuckery
That's odd. It looks almost as if Nick is picking a fight with that elephant."
"Well, the elephant started it."
"That's irrelevant. Fighting with civilians is against the rules. Go break it up."
-Admiral Breya Andreyasn
Tag: humour fighting orders elephant
Right now I've got just two rules to live by.
Rule one: don't taunt elephants.
Rule two: don't stand next to anybody who taunts elephants.
-Sergeant Schlock
Tag: humour rules taunt elephant rules-to-live-by
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
Jesse BallTag: humor children silly elephant personal-space
The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious reasoning part of the mind has only limited control of what the elephant does.
Jonathan HaidtTag: life happiness philosophy jon jonathan elephant haidt
There is a legend that elephant dispose of their dead in secret burial grounds and that none of these has ever been discovered. In support of this, there is only the fact that the body of an elephant, unless he had been trapped or shot in his tracks, has rarely been found. What happens to the old and diseased?
Not only natives, but many white settlers, have supported for years the legend (if it is a legend) that elephant will carry their wounded and their sick hundreds of miles, if necessary, to keep them out of the hands of their enemies. And it is said that elephant never forget" (206).
Tag: elephant
I couldn't have been more shocked if he pulled a pink elephant out of his ass!
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