Animals Quote by Peter Singer

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

“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

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

— Marion Cotillard

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

— Christopher Walken

“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

There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs. But they…

— Eric Goode

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

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

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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