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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Related Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face. ELAYNE BOOSLER In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and clos... SUSAN ORLEAN Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox. DAVE ANNABLE We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zo... MICHIO KAKU I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be on... JODI PICOULT We rely on tourism what are the tourists going to see if the wild animals are chased from their natu... IBRAHIM FAYO People love giraffes. There are plenty of zoos out there who want giraffes. People expect to see tho... PHIL COLEMAN I cannot now recall exactly what creatures I saw on that visit to the Antwerp Nocturama, but there w... W.G. SEBALD We don't want to flood zoos. MICHELLE SMURL This petition seeks USDA action to force zoos to comply with the Animal Welfare Act, either by provi... ELLIOT KATZ For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see ... DIANE ACKERMAN So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ... PATRICK J. ADAMS It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though... YANN MARTEL I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old O... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion ... DIANE ACKERMAN We work with zoos and other wildlife centers in cooperative programs. BRUCE WILLIAMS It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them... PETER SINGER Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. GERALD DURRELL I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion... YANN MARTEL I do love nature, but I don't suppose I'd spent more time in zoos as a child than anyone els... ANDY SERKIS She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear... ELIZABETH GEORGE A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group o... KEAHU KAHUANUI When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages... PETER SINGER We lose sleep over that. But I think Michael J. Fox [who played ultra-conservative kid Alex Keaton i... DAN SAVAGE PETA is calling on all zoos to follow the lead of the Detroit Zoo and the San Francisco Zoo and reti... MICHAEL MCGRAW The USDA is acknowledging the gravity of concern over the poor conditions for elephants in our natio... ELLIOT KATZ Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia... ROBYN DAVIDSON There have been serious discussions by representatives of the four zoos to ask if there are ways tha... DON LINDBURG The biggest problem we have (in zoos) everywhere is the males kill the females. What is it that make... JOGAYLE HOWARD We were pleased to find a decrease in bacteria levels. Perhaps people are becoming more aware of ger... CHARLES GERBA We think there will be more zoos who decide they don't want to continue with elephants. JANE BALLENTINE If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor PLUTARCH I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume... JANUARY JONES If all men were just, there would be no need of valor AGESILAUS It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rule... WILLIAM PENN I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hu... JEFFREY SHARON Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. EDUARDO GALEANO Certain it is that work, worry, labor and trouble, form the lot of almost all men their whole life l... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t... FRANS DE WAAL It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ... JON MEACHAM Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, s... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol... AARON SWARTZ In his own words, he said the accompanying remarks to the caricatures were not legible, so (to him) ... DATUK IDRIS BUANG He was a show drummer. There were times that he would outshine Michael at their shows. GORDON KEITH It is disappointing that elephants live in zoos and circuses, chained for days and months on end, fo... CAROL BUCKLEY The guys that were here, we remember that maybe we came close twice. Once at their place and once he... JASON KIDD If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise NORWEGIAN PROVERB Following Katrina, we went over to Lafayette to help. They were keeping animals at Blackham Coliseum... DANA FRYE And even if we are occupied by most important things, if we attain to honour, or fall into great mis... FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY If we never did a critical habitat designation, the frogs would still would be protected and so woul... AL DONNER There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued. JACK KEMP Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages... SOURCE UNKNOWN There were areas that we need to look at. We didn't (previously) look at how the officers in the cou... GARY PETERSEN She wondered how many of them were liars; their outer purity masking crimes as dark or darker than h... HILLARY JORDAN It's really a global cooperative effort. The idea is to preserve the species, display them in a lot ... DAN CASSIDY We were hitting the ball hard, and Toledo was making the plays. Even when we were being no-hit, I th... PAUL MAINIERI You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books y... RAY BRADBURY theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We... GARY LARSON Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; ... ALYSSA SUTHERLAND We pushed to do things to please ourselves for once. We pursued the things we liked and made sure th... BEN WILSON Ensuring that our home planet is healthy and life sustaining is an overwhelming priority that underc... LAWRENCE ANTHONY The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The L.A. Zoo is a respected institution, the general manager is highly thought of, the L.A. Zoo is o... JACK HANNA Guards are of no use in a library. Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps... SARAH J. MAAS Animals add beauty to nature but,we humans treat them as if we are animals by nature. SRISHTI JAIN I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we'... INGRID BERGMAN In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals ... ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Give credit to them because of how disruptive they were on defense. Once we made a run their defense... ASHLEY JOSEPHSON I would travel far and wide...seeing, listening, creating. I would weave tales for an enthralled aud... GINA MARINELLO-SWEENEY What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, n... JAMES MADISON Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing bec... JAY ALLISON In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their ... ALBERT CAMUS In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of... DEAN KOONTZ In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Ar... PATTI SMITH If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable thi... ORSON SCOTT CARD Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could... NELLIE BLY I've been watching Michael J. Fox since I was a toddler, basically. I watched all the 'Back ... JULIETTE GOGLIA Hatcheries were intended to replace habitat behind dams. If they close all the hatcheries, we want s... GLEN SPAIN When it comes to becoming successful in business, what is more important? Increasing sales or Becomi... KENNETH DARRYL BROWN All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. T... SONU NIGAM It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward... SYDNEY J. HARRIS If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almos... EMANUEL AX I wasn't sure how or where my story would end. Once I knew we were granted the awesome blessing of a... ERIN HULSHIZER The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps t... SAMUEL SMILES All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas... LENNY BRUCE The opposition said we underestimated the number. ... We were right on. ... If we would have used th... CHERYL CRATES But people, as Alan had once reflected to Greenie, were not at all like recipes. You could have all ... JULIA GLASS If we were nothing here, at least we were children of God. At some far-off point in time, all these ... CALVIN MARSHALL We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content ... JESSICA KHOURY Unless you were high up in a building or happened to glimpse it at the end of one of the big avenues... SUSAN MINOT There is a reduction in the diversity of breeds in order to have the fastest growth, and animals are... CAROLINE LUCAS If the splendor of thousands of suns were to blaze forth all at once in the sky, even that would not... BHAGAVAD GITA All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle an... H. L. MENCKEN When all of the conditions are right, we can carry out facial transplants at once. While we already ... HONG ZHIJIAN
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GELB I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your hea... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by other... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion MICHAEL J. TUCKER Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and... MICHAEL J. COHEN I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI [T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its valu... MICHAEL J. SANDEL First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the prin... MICHAEL J. SANDEL I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemica... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN