"There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please."

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I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.

— Peter Matthiessen