147 Quotes About Zoos

I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They'd be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a world that's black or white.

Sweet Elephant of the Morning by Stewart StaffordO sweet elephant of the morning,What loud noise you make,With your leaden feet,And trumpet voice.You spray water,On your thick, dusty skin,And on anyone in proximity,To your body.Your trunk is a grey, reaching arm,And your tusks resemble curved lances,Or elongated walrus teeth,To fight off rivals.© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.

The only really useful thing about zoos is that most of them pay most of their workers most of the time.

Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.

What a pity that most young people instead of seeing one animal in nature--which is worth a hundred in any Zoo--must derive their knowledge of God's creatures from their appearance in prisons. ... How do we manage to think that we know all about an animal by gazing at him penned in a cage?

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.

The rumour was that he wrestled gorillas in his spare time, two at a time, although to be honest, why London Zoo would let him wrestle one, let alone two of their Gorillas Marty wasn't sure.

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.

Found in trees. Sometimes also in old silent movie theaters, seaside zoos, magic shops, hat shops, time-travel shops, topiary gardents, cowboy boots, castle turrets, comet museums, dog pounds, mermaid ponds, dragon lairs, library stacks (the ones in the back), piles of leaves, piles of pancakes, the belly of a fiddle, the bell of a flower, or in the company of wild herds of typewriters. But mostly in trees.