A biography for Jim Fowlerhasn’t been written yet.
“I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.”
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”
“The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.”
“We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.”
“Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.”
“Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.”
“Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.”
“The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.”
“But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.”
“Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.”
“I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.”
“There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.”
“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.”
“Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.”
“I'm a little different from all those conservation types.”
“I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.”