Animal Quote by Thomas French

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo…

— John Berger

We literally live right in the middle of the zoo, and it means that every day is a new experience and so much fun.

— Bindi Irwin

“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

The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life?…

— Patricia Piccinini

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

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

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

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

— Evan Esar

“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