Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of god. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
