Quotes from Jim Fowler

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

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

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

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.