Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Shand

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Mark Roland Shand was a British travel writer and conservationist, and the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, a member of the British royal family. Shand was the author of four travel books and as a BBC conservationist, appeared in documentaries related to his journeys, most of which centered on the survival of elephants. His book Travels on My Elephant became a bestseller and won the Travel Writer of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 1992. He was the chairman of Elephant Family, a wildlife foundation, which he co-founded in 2002.

British - Writer | June 28, 1951 - April 23, 2014

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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

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

Mark Shand

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.

Mark Shand

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.

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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.

Mark Shand

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

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.

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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.

Mark Shand

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

Mark Shand

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.

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

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

Mark Shand

Richard Burton is one of my heroes.

Mark Shand

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.

Mark Shand

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.

Mark Shand

Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Shand

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