The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
- Jim Fowler
Important, Existence, Humans
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
- Jim Fowler
About, His, Johnny Carson, Johnny
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
- Jim Fowler
Work, Dirty, Johnny Carson, Johnny
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
- Jim Fowler
Treat, How, Effects, 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.
- Jim Fowler
Laws, Very, Ecosystem, Biological
Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.
- Jim Fowler
Couple, Smith, Mr, Bulls
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
- Jim Fowler
Eye, Play, Field, Bulls
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
- Jim Fowler
Crowded, Somali, Rwanda, Hardly
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.
- Jim Fowler
Now, Everybody, Proportion, Blow
I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.
- Jim Fowler
Pretty, Before, Widely, Travelled
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
- Jim Fowler
Father, Soil, Scientist, Survey
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
- Jim Fowler
Country, Natural, More, Devastated
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
- Jim Fowler
School, Lot, Falls, Grade School
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.
- Jim Fowler
Father, Being, Introducing, Outdoors
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.
- Jim Fowler
Go, Other, Include, Picnic
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.
- Jim Fowler
Environmental, Doing, Open
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.
- Jim Fowler
Been, Almost All, Very, Natural World
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
- Jim Fowler
Own, Natural, Sooner, Natural World
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
- Jim Fowler
Argument, Tourism, Industry, Open Space
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
- Jim Fowler
Most Powerful, Most, Ever, Invented
I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
- Jim Fowler
Want, Human Beings, Save, Creek
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.
- Jim Fowler
Church, I Remember, Very, Creek
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.
- Jim Fowler
Revenue, Bring, Lot, Creek
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
- Jim Fowler
Spring, Over, Actually, Near
I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
- Jim Fowler
Enough, Dumb, Always, Perkins
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.
- Jim Fowler
Environmental, Think, Going, Translate
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.
- Jim Fowler
Recognize, Practically, Grew, Amazed
The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.
- Jim Fowler
Run, Big, Mile, River
Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
- Jim Fowler
Now, See, Most, Humans
Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
- Jim Fowler
Looks, Haiti, Hit, Bomb
Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.
- Jim Fowler
Zoo, Director, More, Formal
Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.
- Jim Fowler
Woods, Run, Along, Mile
I'm a little different from all those conservation types.
- Jim Fowler
Different, Conservation, Types
But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.
- Jim Fowler
Tell, Lot, Falls, Farmland
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.
- Jim Fowler
Attitude, How, Biggest, Attitudes
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