The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in 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. John Berger
The London zoo is an animal microcosm of London, and even the lions, as a rule, behave as if they had been born in South Kensington. Leonard Woolf
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. Evan Esar
Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo. Paul Simon
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother’s keeper, or his keeper’s brother. Evan Esar