Quotes By Jim Fowler

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.