Daphne Sheldrick Professions : Author Born : June 4, 1934 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Daphne Sheldrick To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family member. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world. Daphne Sheldrick compassion baby thinking 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. Daphne Sheldrick elephants land animal I doubt whether my great-grandchildren will actually be able to see wild elephants living a normal life, they are going very rapidly, one every 15 minutes. Daphne Sheldrick top-news Something needs to be done on the other end, there's no welfare in Africa -- there's poverty and unemployment, [so] as long as a man can get money from killing an elephant, he will. Daphne Sheldrick top-news Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors