“The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”

—  Desmond Morris, book The Human Zoo

Desmond Morris (2009), The Human Zoo, p. vii

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