Yann Martel Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Animal, Men

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Wall, Father

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Differences, Interesting

• Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

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  Animal, Together, Stories

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.7, Canongate Books

• Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Training, Important

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Marte, September 11, 2001.

• Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

  Yann Martel

  Nature, Animal, Effort

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ...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.

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  Zoos, Fall, Animal

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

• ...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

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  Animal

• If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.

  Yann Martel

  Fall, Animal, Ostriches

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

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  Animal, Thinking, Matter

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Expression, Insecurity

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

• The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Thinking, Mind

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

• 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.

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  Animal, Forever, Social Hierarchy

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.17, Vintage Canada

• [The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  Yann Martel

  Fate, Animal, Past

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.97, Knopf Canada

• 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.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Animal, Jail

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