Quotes About Ivory Trade

#1. Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

Yao Ming

#2. Rehearsal? What's that? Rehearsal's for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

Brett Ratner

#3. When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

LeBron James

#4. Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.

Virginia McKenna

#5. What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Yahya Jammeh

#6. There might be some serious fun in politics.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants.

Ofir Drori

#8. Everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else ...

Aldous Huxley

#9. The priority list is: 1. The Strength Group 2. Moral Self-Interest 3. Moral Nurturance It

George Lakoff

#10. Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize that by buying ivory, they are playing a role in the illegal wildlife trade and its serious consequences.

Li Bingbing