Zoo Quotes

Most popular zoo quotes

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches. - Margaret Atwood quote.
Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries quote.
Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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Here in their ugly, empty cages the monkeys were no more tropical than a collection of London rats or dirty park pigeons.
In the false country of the zoo
Grief is well represented there.
A zoo is a prison. - Nadine Gordimer quote.
A zoo is a prison.
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. - Desmond Morris quote.
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. - Carl Sagan quote.
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
Carl Sagan The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
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.

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