China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us? ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels; these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker.
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.
In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3. 6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.
If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.
I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.
The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant. ' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.
The United States should not jump around like an elephant frightened by a mouse.
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.
Ella is nervous,” the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. “The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
I was driving pretty much the way everyone drives in LA, like elephants dancing on each others’ backs at a circus.
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.
In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.
All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.