Jim Fowler Quotes

"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
(Related: Nature, Challenge, Earth, Future, Laws, Respect)

"Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue."
- Jim Fowler

"Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded."
- Jim Fowler

"Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Public, Welfare, World)

"That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Challenge)

"The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: People, Care, Challenge, Public)

"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Father)

"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Argument, Economics, Open, Space, states)

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

"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
(Related: Life, Family, Quality)

"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
(Related: Life, Quality, Open, Space, Thinking, Welfare, Wildlife)

"The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run."
- Jim Fowler

"There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Afghanistan, Country, World)

"We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Spring, University)

"We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Baseball, Eye, Play)

"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
(Related: Wildlife, World)

"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Life, Quality, Existence, Wilderness, Wildlife)

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

"There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Media, Propaganda, Television)

"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
(Related: Father, Being, Plants, Trees)

"But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Church, Washington)

"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Now)

"Haiti looks like a bomb hit it."
- Jim Fowler

"How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Earth, National security, Welfare)

"I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Dumb)

"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
(Related: Animals, Plants, Talking)

"I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Film, Pretty, Wildlife, World)

"I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Church, Memories, School)

"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
(Related: Family, Church, Now)

"Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Animals, Being, Now)

"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
(Related: Trees)

"Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type."
- Jim Fowler

"I'm a little different from all those conservation types."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Conservation)

"Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Jokes)

"I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings."
- Jim Fowler
(Related: Want)