Quotes By Jim Fowler

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.

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

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.

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.

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.