Zoos Quotes · Page 2

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.

— Steve Ross

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

— Elayne Boosler

I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

— Grigori Perelman

I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.

— Craig Ferguson

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

— Hoagy Carmichael

I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone else!

— Andy Serkis

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

— Gerald Durrell

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

— Homer

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

— Michio Kaku

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What…

— Adam Rex

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies…

— Michael J. Fox

“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds…

— Patti Smith

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in…

— Rie Rasmussen

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

— Anonymous

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

— Sam Simon

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I…

— Igor Stravinsky

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes…

— Edward Abbey

[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were…

— Dian Fossey

It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true…

— Frans de Waal

We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying…

— David Jeremiah Barron

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,…

— Betty White

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having…

— E. O. Wilson

I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son…

— Anonymous

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

— Andy Biersack

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

— Yann Martel

Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

— Desmond Morris

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

— Jim Stengel

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

— Carl Sagan

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

— Susan Orlean

Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

— Jeremy Clarkson

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct…

— Betty White

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged,…

— Wyndham Lewis

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals…

— Virginia McKenna

A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on…

— Jimmy Fallon

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered,…

— Jerry Lewis

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

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young…

— Spiro T. Agnew

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