Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity

Contents

Foreword by Calvin Luther Martin

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology and Sources

1 The Existential Elephant

2 A Delicate Network

3 A Strange Kind of Animal

4 Deposited in the Bones

6 Elephant on the Couch: Case Study, E. M.

7 The Sorrow of the Cooking Pot

8 The Biology of Forgiveness

9 Am I an Elephant?

10 Speaking in Tongues

11 Where Does the Soul Go?

12 Beyond Numbers

Epilogue: Quilt Making

Appendix: Ten Things You Can Do to Help Elephants

Illustrations follow page 114.