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Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature's fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world's most emotionally human land mammal.

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With amazing arrogance we presume omniscience and an understanding of the complexities of Nature, and with amazing impertinence we firmly believe that we can better it... We have forgotten that we, ourselves, are just a part of nature, an animal which seems to have taken the wrong turning bent on total destruction.

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Daphne Sheldrick

Daphne Sheldrick

Born: June 4, 1934
Died: April 12, 2018 (aged 83)
Bio: Dame Daphne Marjorie Sheldrick was a Kenyan-British author, conservationist and expert in animal husbandry, particularly the raising and reintegrating of orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years.

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