Animal Quote by John Berger

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

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look…

— David Sedaris

The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.

— Anonymous

“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

“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

What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a…

— Thomas French

“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

Zoo is an institution for animals to learn about human behavior.

— Tasneem Hameed

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

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to do but…

— Peter Singer

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

“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