We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. — Yann Martel 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
...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“In zoos, as in nature, the best times to visit are sunrise and sunset. That is when most animals come to life.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that… — Yann Martel 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
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with… — Yann Martel Copy Share
