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> [What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/what-s-the-reality-of-being-inside-a-zoo-for-the-animals-and-for-the/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

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## More by Thomas French

> [Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/elephants-it-turns-out-are-surprisingly-stealthy-as-the-sunlight/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/freedom-is-a-human-concept-we-have-these-very-romanticized/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/despite-all-their-flaws-zoos-wake-us-up-they-invite-us-to-step/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/all-zoos-are-both-beguiling-and-repellent/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/what-s-the-reality-of-being-inside-a-zoo-for-the-animals-and-for-the/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/on-an-overcrowded-planet-where-more-species-slip-toward-extinction/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [“Mkhaya's herd is a good-sized group - sixteen in all, counting the calves - and even though they are the largest land mammals on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/mkhaya-s-herd-is-a-good-sized-group-sixteen-in-all-counting-the/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [“All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent—the notion that we can seek out the wildness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/all-zoos-even-the-most-enlightened-are-built-upon-the-idea-both/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [“Taken together, the narratives of how the animals ended up at Lowry Park revealed as much about Homo sapiens as they revealed about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/taken-together-the-narratives-of-how-the-animals-ended-up-at-lowry/)

[Thomas French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-french/)

> [“New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-french/new-life-insists-it-does-not-debate-it-simply-appears-trembling-and/)

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