Preservation Quote by Gerald Durrell Download Open image “Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.” — Gerald Durrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Preservation Should Sides Zoos
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today. — Betty White Copy Share Image
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature… — Michael J. Fox 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 survive in… — Yann Martel 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, the animals… — Thomas French 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 wildness of… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
“A good zoo is a place of carefully worked-out coincidence: exactly where an animal says to us, "Stay out!"...we say to it, "Stay in!"… — Yann Martel 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 respect seems… — Frans de Waal 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 major difference… — Yann Martel 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 preserve life?… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“Lying spread-eagled in the silky water, gazing into the sky, only moving my hands and feet slightly to keep afloat, I was looking at… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.” — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“No sooner were they drowsing pleasantly than the Magenpies would start the food call, one doing the hiccoughs while the other did the piping.… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“The noise of drinking was exhilarating. Champagne corks popped and the pale, chrysanthemum-coloured liquid, whispering gleefully with bubbles, hissed into the glasses; heavy red… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests. — Adam Werbach Copy Share Image
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection,… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
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