47 Quotes About Zoo

Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.

Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.

Know your load. That’s rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I’m not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I’m pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

Andrej thought about it - the notion that theworld was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren’t.

The zoo kills the 'wild' in wild animal.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.

Houses: we bring together in a small space what in the wild is spread out.

See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.