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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to…
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic…
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Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of…
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that…
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with…
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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
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As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,…
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins…
— Diane Ackerman
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to…
— Diane Ackerman
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It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more…
— Kevin Bacon
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Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.
— Hoagy Carmichael
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered,…
— Jerry Lewis
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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
— Evan Esar
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
— Gerry Cheevers
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