{"quotes":[{"text":"But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.","author":"Mike Bond","tags":["africa","change","conservation","elephants","progress","rhinos","stop-time","the-last-savanna","wild-places","wildlife"],"id":23605,"author_id":"Mike+Bond"},{"text":"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 all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.","author":"Lawrence Anthony","tags":["animal-rights","animals","elephants","inspirational"],"id":33358,"author_id":"Lawrence+Anthony"},{"text":"Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["elephants","ghosts","hippos","moonlight","simile"],"id":90596,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"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 legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldy bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. Man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times ... Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to.","author":"John Scott Haldane","tags":["elephants","fall","injury","mouse","rat","relative","science"],"id":132794,"author_id":"John+Scott+Haldane"},{"text":"She's in the Catskill,' Shopie began, but Scathach reached over and pinched her hand. '.","author":"Michael Scott","tags":["cafe","elephants","funny","hilarious","shadow"],"id":154905,"author_id":"Michael+Scott"},{"text":"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.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["compassion","elephants","evolution"],"id":179531,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.","author":"Gary Larson","tags":["commitment","elephants","revenge"],"id":230288,"author_id":"Gary+Larson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert McCammon","tags":["africa","death","elephants"],"id":233736,"author_id":"Robert+McCammon"},{"text":"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 by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback.","author":"Al-Mas'udi","tags":["battle","elephants","war"],"id":244944,"author_id":"Al-Mas%27udi"},{"text":"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.","author":"Eric Dinerstein","tags":["animals","book","elephants","grass","interesting","jungle","knowledge","life","nature","spiderweb","tiger"],"id":254007,"author_id":"Eric+Dinerstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}