The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
—Desmond Morris
Topics: Cities, City Life
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
—Desmond Morris
Topics: Curiosity
We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
—Desmond Morris
Topics: Humanity, Humankind
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
—Desmond Morris
Topics: Soldiers
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