Zoos Quotes

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We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

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

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

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

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

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

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

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

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.

Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

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

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

I live in a zoo I run scandals with savages

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

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

The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

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

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

Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.

You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.

I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?"

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.

I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

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.

[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch.

I don't have time for lie-on-the-beach vacations. I'm a zoo person. There's one in New Jersey where animals actually come up to your car. I love the monkeys - I used to give them bubblegum to chew.

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.

If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

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