But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but...

There was no point in wallowing. Magnus refused towallow. Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people, and depressing elephants.

I’m a floating TURNIP HEAD

The elephant’s love for him was a love I have never known – yet always longed to. For why should he be remembered always, and not I?

I was still excited. Big or small, elephants are elephants, after all. Just before we mounted, when I was sure no one could see me, I quickly kissed the shoulder of my beast and murmured,...

Southampton’s barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Solomon breathed a sigh of relief ever so slightly, thankful that the cricket had not been eaten. Not that he was concerned for the cricket being eaten. No, he was simply relieved that the voice...

I loved her like elephants like remembering stuff. Those bastards just won’t let me forget and move on.

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

Donkeys and elephants represent us politically. Why? Because snakes and roaches would be too obvious.

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.

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...

Don’t ask why the elephants wear such large shoes,And why the kangaroos are reborn kidnappers,And why the sailing birds are all Romantics.

A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash … Elephants have their...

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

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...

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...

She’s in the Catskill,” Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. “Ouch!”I just wanted to distract you,” Scathach explained. “Don’t even think about Black Annis. There are some names that should never...

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