We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals… — Virginia McKenna Copy Share Image
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct… — Betty White Copy Share Image
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying… — David Jeremiah Barron Copy Share Image
“One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare… — Irene Dunne Copy Share Image
A good way to lose weight is to put salt on your ass and go to a petting zoo. But stay away… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it’s behind bars.” “It’s a zoo, Iggy,” Nudge said, taking his arms and leading… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo… It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm not going to / let a little thing like the world stand in my way. / Why should I? I understand… — Matthew Dickman Copy Share Image
To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image