Quotes from Jim Fowler

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.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

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

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.