When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out… — Tarsem Singh 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
Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s.… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with… — Betty White Copy Share Image
If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show.… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time -… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation,… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this… — Bill Bryson 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
“I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can… — Yann Martel 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
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
So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
![“[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again” quote by Dian Fossey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1b/dian-fossey-18586_animal_my-excursions-provided-a-unique-opportun_3179078.jpg)
![“All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9f/h-l-mencken-245_amusement_all-zoos-actually-offer-to-the-public-in_2331099.png)
![“I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to "Zoo"], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of "Zoo."” quote by James Wolk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cf/james-wolk-11374_apocalyptic_i-m-also-not-an-avid-watcher-of-the-show_1625869.jpg)
