Jim Fowler

Scientist

36 Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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