Words matter. These are the best Jim Fowler Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.
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 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.
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.
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.
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
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.
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 had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.
Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.
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.
I’m a little different from all those conservation types.
Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
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.
I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
