Animal Quote by Gerald Durrell

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

— John Updike

...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in…

— Martha Shelley

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves?…

— Patti Smith

And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to…

— Haruki Murakami

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo.…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans…

— Katherine Applegate

“I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last…

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Andy Serkis

“They parade for us In zoos - in portraits Of every generation.”

— Abigail George

I understand the people-watching, but I've never done it where people have to race to three different shows, from here to there. I mean,…

— James Wolcott

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