Zoos Quotes - Page 2

• Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

  Yann Martel

  Civilization, Territory, Natural

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

  Desmond Morris

  Funny, Concrete Jungle, Cities

  The Human Zoo (1969) p. 8

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• When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

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• I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Fun, Kids

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 29, 2016

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• The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eagles, Prison, Isolation

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Get a Life”, p.159, A&C Black

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• My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

  Billy Connolly

  Parent, Pet, Comedy

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• The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

  Taiichi Ohno

  Moving, Animal, People

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• Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

  Gerald Durrell

  Sides, Should, Preservation

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• There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go
  straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

  A. A. Milne

  Animal, Past, People

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.5, Egmont UK

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• I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

  Grigori Perelman

  Animal, Want, Display

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• If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Zebras, Disappointment, Real

  "Joy in the Merely Real". Summary of the Joy In The Merely Real sequence, wiki.lesswrong.com. October 2009.

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• The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Elephants, Ideas, Feet

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

  Andy Biersack

  Animal, Bvb, Black Veil Brides

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• Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

  John Updike

  Children, Mirrors, Childhood

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• The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

  Cole Porter

  Falling In Love, Eagles, Kangaroos

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• We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Civilization, Pet, World

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• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  Carol J. Adams

  Animal, Meat Eating, Two

  Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

  Temple Grandin

  Believe, Animal, Welfare Programs

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?

  Patricia Piccinini

  Real, Animal, Ideas

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• "Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it’s behind bars." "It’s a zoo, Iggy,” Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything’s behind bars."

  James Patterson

  Bars, Lions, Arms

  "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Art, Taken, Animal

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• It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.

  Jon Stewart

  Stupid, Mad, Comedian

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• what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.

  Bill McKibben

  Animal, Exotic, Woods

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.124, Random House

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• Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

  Yann Martel

  Wall, Father, Animal

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings.

  Emma Watson

  Real, Nice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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