John Berger Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• The zoo cannot but disappoint.

  John Berger

  Zoos, Animal, Pet

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.429, Vintage

• A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

  John Berger

  Animal, Pigs, Two

  John Berger (2011). “About Looking”, p.7, Vintage

• The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

  John Berger

  Animal, Men, Sea

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

• What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.

  John Berger

  Animal, Men, Firsts

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein 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

  Zoos, Animal, Opportunity

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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