Life Quote by Thomas French

“New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.” quote by Thomas French — Download Open image

““New life insists. It does not debate. It simply appears, trembling and hungry, and will not be denied.””

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Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion.…

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“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals remind us of nature’s impossibly varied schemes for survival, all the strategies that species rely upon for courtship and mating and protecting the young and establishing dominance and hunting for something to eat and avoiding being…

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All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.

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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…

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On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will,…

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“Mkhaya's herd is a good-sized group - sixteen in all, counting the calves - and even though they are the largest land mammals on…

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“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…

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“Taken together, the narratives of how the animals ended up at Lowry Park revealed as much about Homo sapiens as they revealed about the…

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