Best animal & zoos Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Ifs Needs Natural Animal Policy Becoming Animal Rights Pursued Zoos Animal Welfare Caricatures Habitat Wild Animal Save Mother Earth Animals In Nature Nature And Animals Natural Habitats

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.”

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Author:Janice Hahn

“Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.”

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Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.”

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Author:Germaine Greer

“It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If that is true, then, by the same logic, an animal held captive in a zoo is still a free wild beast.”

Ifs Men Believe Stills Country Animal Logic Beast Zoos Captives Birthright Wild Beasts

Author:William Powell

“Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.”

Ifs Earth Film Certain Animal Land Planets Hollywood Welcome Coast Cages Never Quit Visiting Planet Earth Zoos

Author:Elinor Glyn

“Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Animal Travel Comfortable Clothes Dresses Zoos Disneyland Artifacts Quaint Flora

Author:Alison Lurie

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

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Author:Sam Simon

“Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals.”

Guy Animal Wife Romney Zoos

Author:David Letterman

“Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.”

Animal Cousin Ambassadors Zoos My Cousin Zookeepers

Author:Jack Hanna

“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”

Looks Purpose Opportunity Animal Offers Stranger Encounters Disappoint Visitors Zoos Sideways Flicker

Book:About Looking

Source: About Looking

“The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.”

“Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.”

World Humans Long Enough Animal Protection Pet Protected Organisms Laboratory Ageing Zoos

Author:S. Jay Olshansky

“The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.”

Kind Has Beens Running Animal Fiction Tree Solutions Science Fiction Fishes Various All Kinds Code Eggs Passing Away Zoos Freezing

Author:E. O. Wilson

“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.”

Thinking Art Happens Animal Wind Findings I Realized Museums Zoos

Author:Patti Smith

“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.”

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Author:Missy Elliot

“For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.”

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Author:Diane Ackerman

“Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!”

Ifs Hands Evil Simple Animal Destroying Zoos Captivity

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!”

Men Humanity Animal Cages Humane Zoos

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Shows Animal Zoos

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.”

Process Animal Identity Lonely Species Beast Parks Companion Signals Galaxy Visiting Zoos Adopting Communes Companion Animals

Author:Diane Ackerman

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

Want Animal Display Zoos

Author:Grigori Perelman

“So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.”

People Feels I Can Dream Animal Serious Treats Shops Rumor Zoos Barbers Skit Barber Shop

Author:Kanye West

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