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“Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“He's not a pet. He's an accident victim.”
― H.M. Ward, Damaged 2

“...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“The zoo kills the 'wild' in wild animal.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster. To these the rewilders quietly voiced a sad and stinging reply. The most dangerous experiment is already underway. The future most to be feared is the one now dictated by the status quo. In vanquishing our most fearsome beasts from the modern world, we have released worse monsters from the compound. They come in disarmingly meek and insidious forms, in chewing plagues of hoofed beasts and sweeping hordes of rats and cats and second-order predators. They come in the form of denuded seascapes and barren forests, ruled by jellyfish and urchins, killer deer and sociopathic monkeys. They come as haunting demons of the human mind. In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves.”
― William Stolzenburg, Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

“Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the kings!”
― Munia Khan

“Who’s gonna bring the wild animals some hope? If we don’t love them the way they are..”
― Munia Khan

“Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Risking your own life in order to entertain others is the height of stupidity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To catch a wild animal, you need not just to be courageous and wild, but wise and calm as well for any wild animal would be wild towards any threat, but after you have entangled it with good calmness, courage and wisdom, you can easily tame it.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?”
― Olivia Manning, The Spoilt City

“I love mockingbirds, but I cannot rehab them because they imprint, or bond, or whatever you choose to call it. Young ravens and crows are worse. In their quest for attention and affection, they are akin to domestic dogs. And when you placate young wild animals with a tender human touch, it changes them forever. So rehabbers have to reject the overtures of creatures who attempt to bond, to ensure they retain their wild nature. Some people are good at this. I am not. I have too much of what John Keats called negative capability as well as a close corollary, empathy. When birds arrive at my door lost, broken, and terrified, the distinctions between us fall away, and they are no longer wild animals separate from my humanity. Instead, I am right there with them, sharing their troubles, fear, and pain. I see myself in them and want to protect, love, and reassure them.”
― Terry Masear, Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

“How cold the night! Yet, the snow glistened. In her mind's eye, in a state of semi-consciousness, Stella saw a dreamcatcher, quivering on the wind.”
― Suzy Davies, The Girl in The Red Cape

“A sheep in wolves clothing!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“You know it is a broken society when people fear each other more than they fear wild animals.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“The only really useful thing about zoos is that most of them pay most of their workers most of the time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our first project, LIFE BEHIND BARS VOL. I is the most comprehensive photographic study to date of exotic and endangered animals and the necessity of their being kept in captivity for their own protection, and that of their speciesâ€� declares Julian Starks.”
― Dorrance Publishing

“My dream, thus mission in life is to travel the world and photograph beautiful, vibrant animals in all places and circumstances, free and confinedâ€�. Julian Starks”
― Julian Starks, Life Behind Bars Vol. 1

“OUR MISSION IS THE ANIMALS!

Project Manager - Mary Ann Collins”
― Mary Ann Collins

“OUR MISSION IS THE ANIMALS!"

'Life Behind Bars Vol. 1 - Project Manager
Mary Ann Collins”
― Mary Ann Collins

“DREAMS IN THEIR EYES

"Julian’s work gives us a chance to look deeply and to sympathize with captive animals. His work should both captivate and haunt us. As stewards of this planet, we have an obligation to accept Julian’s invitation to have this experience. By so doing, we can hear these magnificent animals and give voice in our language to creatures that cannot speak it. We can all become wildlife advocates.”
― Benjamin Monarch, Wildlife Attorney

“GIVING A VOICE

“Julian Starks compassionately depicts animals who can only dream of the life they may have had if not for the thoughtless and cruel behavior of humans. We hope his beautiful images will inspire people to get active in whatever ways they can to help wildlife, from boycotting circuses with animal acts to refusing to have their photos taken with tiger cubs while on vacation. From talented photographers like Julian who document animals' plight to families who take the time to educate themselves before they buy that ticket, we can all make a difference for animals.”
― Christopher Merrow - PETA Fundraising Manager

“OUR MISSION IS THE ANIMALS!”
― Mary Ann Collins

“Sweet Elephant of the Morning by Stewart Stafford

O 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.”
― Stewart Stafford

“But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are any 'wild animals' left.”
― Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

“In the wild, he thought, there would be almost no waiting. Waiting was what happened to you when you lost control, when events were out of your hands or your freedom was taken from you; but in the wild there would always be trying. In the wild there must be trying and trying, he thought, and no waiting at all. Waiting was a position of dependency.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

“It has been generally, but not always, the custom of naturalists to degrade the powers of dumb animals into mere instinct, and not to allow them reason; and on the other hand to elevate the qualities of man, by entirely disavowing the power of instinct in man, giving him the use of reason alone. It appears to me, that there is such a quality as instinct; by which I understand a desire to do anything without knowing why, or without having the object in view which it is to reach. I am of opinion that both reason and instinct act in man and also in brutes; and I will even grant that the proportion of reason to instinct is greater in man than in other animals; but that the latter possess a great portion of reason would it seems be absurd to dispute.”
― Lewis Gompertz, Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes