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 voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I understand the people-watching, but I've never done it where people have to race to three different shows, from here to there.… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else! — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go… — Martha Shelley Copy Share Image
This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public… — John Hirsch Copy Share Image
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically,… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. — Betty White Copy Share Image
If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo. — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes… — Cole Porter 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
At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
