"The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see."
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Source: Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black
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