Jim Fowler famous quotes

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

#Nature #Quality #Important

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

#Nature #Thinking #Space

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

#Powerful #Two #Numbers

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

#Environmental #World #Littles

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

#Stupid #Dumb #Enough

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing
-- Jim Fowler

#Powerful #Knowledge #Knowing

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

#Powerful #Media #Television

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

#Different #Littles #Conservation

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

#Father #Soil #Scientist

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

#Challenges #Century #Spokespeople

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

#Attitude #People #Challenges

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

#Rivers #Creeks #Revenue

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

#Animal #Dangerous #Humans

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

#Monologues #Jokes

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

#Thinking #Animal #Talking

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

#Dirty #Naughty #Guy

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

#World #Around The World #Wildlife

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

#Memories #Fall #School

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

#Desert #Potatoes #Plant

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
-- Jim Fowler

#Country #World #Natural

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

#Baseball #Eye #Play

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

#Law #Ecosystems #Challenges

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

#Earth #Welfare #Social

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 #Adventure #Tree

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

#Ties #World #Saving