Mark Shand Quotes

#1. I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.

Mark Shand

#2. Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.

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#3. There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

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#4. I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest.

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#5. There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

Irene Khan

#6. Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

Elizabeth Aston

#7. The combination of a brand like Cartier and the immense heritage that India holds can go places.

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#8. If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.

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#9. Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.

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#10. If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.

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#11. The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

Mark Shand

#12. There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

Mark Shand

#13. Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.

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#14. People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

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#15. A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.

Fredrik Backman

#16. You either trust someone day one until they prove you wrong, or you say, 'I don't trust you until you show me I can trust you.' I'm the latter.

Charlie Ergen

#17. You should know by now that it takes patience and a forgiving attitude to be friends with Travis. He's his own universe."
I shook my head. "That's the Travis everyone else sees ... not the Travis I know.

Jamie McGuire

#18. My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Mitt Romney

#19. Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

Mark Shand

#20. The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change! When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#21. In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

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#22. My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.

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#23. Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

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#24. You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

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#25. I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.

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#26. World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

St. Lucia

#27. I've always found people to be by far the biggest problem-causers in life.

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#28. Richard Burton is one of my heroes.

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#29. When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

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#30. If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.

Mark Shand