A perfect world Quote by Susan Orlean

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

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

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

— Gerald Durrell

“The world is a zoo”

— Edward Albee

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

— Michio Kaku

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk…

— Edward Abbey

“We’ve built a ‘human zoo,’ caging ourselves in routines, technology, and artificial environments.”

— Ken Breniman

“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

“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

“No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.”

— Peter Høeg

“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

“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