The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
JOHN BERGERYour lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
More John Berger Quotes
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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