If you have not yet experienced the laughter of elephants then you are missing one of nature’s greatest expressions of joy. Elephant smiles travel from their mouth to their eyes and then all the way to the tips of their trunks.

—Gregory Colbert

Let us set our course by the enchanted eyes of orangutans and the light of the stars.

—Gregory Colbert

I have just returned to the Namibian desert. What if through interspecies collaboration we could explore our shared imagination? We are accustomed to seeing stories through the eyes of human beings. That is why, in many of these images, the human eyes continue to be closed and the animals’ eyes are open. It is the animals that gaze out at the world and tell us their stories.

—Gregory Colbert