Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with… — Frans de Waal 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
“All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent—the notion that we can seek out the… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the… — Robert Solow 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 bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly.… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are… — Eric Goode 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
When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“Wolves as symbols of wilderness are so culturally important that we humans will go to great lengths to protect the species purity,… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to… — Mike Tyson 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
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's… — Ashlee Simpson 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
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
I was always fascinated with animals and I wanted to go to the zoo all the time. When I got older and… — Marcus Hudson Copy Share Image
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port… — Peter Singer 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
I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for… — Daniel Quinn 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
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with… — Benjamin Spock 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
As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II,… — Spiro T. Agnew 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
I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
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