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.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.