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zoos acres fit
Yann Martel It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
zoos animal men
Yann Martel We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
zoos wall father
Yann Martel Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
zoos animal jail
Yann Martel A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.
zoos civilization territory
Yann Martel Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
zoos people grace
Yann Martel I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
zoos sanctuary
Nancy Travis I love zoo sanctuaries.
zoos monkeys doe
Kevin Bacon It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
sanctuary slavery territory
Robert Toombs They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.
sanctuary our-thoughts
Aiden Wilson Tozer God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell.
sanctuary reborn i-can
Lady Gaga I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
sanctuary total walked
Bob Davie It was total devastation. When I walked up to the church, I said 'Uh oh, this is the end.' The sanctuary was just demolished.
sanctuary temple
Bible Bible And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
sanctuary lasts violence
Neil Gaiman I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
sanctuary mediocrity honest
Jean de la Bruyere I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
sanctuary should volume
A. J. Jacobs This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
sanctuary states
Russell Pearce We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem.