“…nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“I love my prayer rug. . . . because it helped me remember that the earth is the creation of God and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few… — 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
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
