Jim Fowler

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

“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.”

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

“Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”