Top 25 Jim Fowler Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

That’s really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

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

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 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.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

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.

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

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.

There’s no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we’ve ever invented.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it’s so crowded.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

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

I’m a little different from all those conservation types.

Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.

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

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

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

I don’t want to save a creek for the creek’s sake, but what’s in it for human beings.