Kyle Dunnigan Quotes

I hate zoos.

Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

To think that any animal would be trapped makes me so sad. It's like living in your bedroom for your entire life and never being able to go outside.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

When I left the zoo and I sent my chimpanzees to the sanctuary in Florida and imagined what my chimpanzees went through for 18 years, I'm ashamed of myself.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

It was like the first time I'd ever seen Hollywood just really not do the right thing. We filmed Free Willy in Mexico. I'd come in a really nice car from my hotel, and we'd have to drive around all the crew that was sleeping in the parking lot. People making their breakfast on the ground. It was because there was a whale there that was in a little tank. It just felt gross. It felt really bad. They didn't free that whale for, damn... at least 10 years later. The poor whale had horrible psoriasis all over him, and his fin didn't work.