Jim Fowler Quotes

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

Life, Thinking, Learn

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, Around, Talking

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

Life, Important, Quality

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

Work, Guy, Dirty

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

Started, Jokes, Monologues

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

Challenge, Develop, Century

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

Attitude, Care, Challenge

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

Life, Family, Place

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

Around, Point, Almost

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

Nice, Down, Around

But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.
Jim Fowler

Between, Tell, Church

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

Everybody, Blow, Exploit

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
Jim Fowler

Looks, Hit, Bomb

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

Treat, Social, Earth

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

Enough, Said, Dumb

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

Human, Save, Creek

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

Pretty, Before, Around

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

School, Memories, Church

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

Family, Down, Remember

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

House, Looks, Trees

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

Different, Types

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

Director, Formal, Zoo

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

Dangerous, Humans, Emphasizes

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, Person, Down

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
Jim Fowler

Father, Scientist, Soil

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: April 9, 1932

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