Mark Shand Quotes

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

Richard Burton is one of my heroes.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.