Quotes by Zoos In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane! Mehmet Murat Ildan animal zoos men We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals. Michio Kaku jurassic-park animal zoos Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals! Mehmet Murat Ildan shows animal zoos Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime! Mehmet Murat Ildan captivity zoos children For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest of the world, which means the church should be more like a zoo than a tomb of identical mummies. Mike Yaconelli zoos mean believe I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined. Mike Tyson bullying new-york zoos 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. Missy Elliot zoos beach lying The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. Nadine Gordimer eagles prison zoos I love zoo sanctuaries. Nancy Travis sanctuary zoos Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo. Nathanael West animal zoos thinking I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo. Nicole Kidman zoos fun children My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else. Oliver Sacks first-love monday zoos Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. Ogden Nash basketball games zoos 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 zoos My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2. Patrick Rothfuss mom zoos men In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre? Patti Smith zoos talking art I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo. Patti Smith animal zoos art Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. Paul Simon happenings zoos Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries bad-day zoos life If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all. Peter Singer real zoos moving «1234567891011»