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

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

Posted 5 months ago
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I have just left the dunes of Namibia. I have now been on over a hundred expeditions. I have been saying hello and goodbye to animals the past twenty years and I often look back with laughter and sadness when I leave my animal friends. Perhaps in some way with every animal collaboration I felt changed as soon as I said hello. I don’t feel as if I am telling them a story, but rather that they are helping me to find a story and in doing so my own story is constantly being rewri tten. By trying to build a bridge to another animal’s dreams, I am also trying to connect them with our own. Nevertheless, even after years in the desert, savannah, jungle, or at sea, it still always feels like I am taking an ax to my heart when I finally have to leave. It’s supposed to be a delicious animal goodbye but it’s always difficult to find the good in goodbye. —Gregory Colbert

I have just left the dunes of Namibia. I have now been on over a hundred expeditions. I have been saying hello and goodbye to animals the past twenty years and I often look back with laughter and sadness when I leave my animal friends. Perhaps in some way with every animal collaboration I felt changed as soon as I said hello. I don’t feel as if I am telling them a story, but rather that they are helping me to find a story and in doing so my own story is constantly being rewri

tten. By trying to build a bridge to another animal’s dreams, I am also trying to connect them with our own. Nevertheless, even after years in the desert, savannah, jungle, or at sea, it still always feels like I am taking an ax to my heart when I finally have to leave. It’s supposed to be a delicious animal goodbye but it’s always difficult to find the good in goodbye. 

—Gregory Colbert
Posted 7 months ago
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