Sunday, October 27, 2013

Giant ELEPHANT


The Giant and Innocent:

When I was passing through a park,  during our journey to Ooty (South India), we saw these giant elephants with their master. Really, these elephants look amazing while bathing


“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come - seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”
                                             - Peter Matthiessen, The Tree Where Man Was Born




“Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There's bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine.”
                                                                              - Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Small as an Elephant



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