The Last Rhinos Quotes

“People will say we're being a little bit anthropomorphic?' I remembered Brendan's use of the word - 'human-like'.

'Anyone who doesn't believe that animals are aware that they have family and friends, and care about them, must also be a paid-up member of the Flat Earth Society, or still think the sun revolves around the earth,' replied Dylan disdainfully. 'I mean, how switched off can you be? How can anyone still believe animals don't have emotions? They're alive and emotions are a response to life. I've seen warthogs that are more intelligent and more responsible than some people I know. Not to say better parents.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

“But sometimes you have to go for it in life. If you just sit around thinking, then nothing ever happens. And with that I was seized by a moment of clarity.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

“How such incredibly powerful creatures could be so vulnerable was a crime against the universe. The tragic futility of it all was what really got me. The rhino’s brilliant million-year evolutionary effort to build up three tons of muscle, bone and horn to defend itself meant nothing in a modern technological world that didn’t care a fig about them. The fact that our grandchildren may never see a rhino in the wild again was a pivotal reason to continue to try and save them.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

“The children danced on. They were alive; that is all that mattered. They lived for the moment. They danced when they could, and died when they would.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

“But yet, but yet . . . the night he died, they [the elephants] were right there outside his house. And they came every evening for the next week as the sun set, until his ashes were scattered on the land he loved. Then they left.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures