Jim Fowler Quotes (42 Quotes)

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

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.

That REIT is a fairly transparent view into what is happening in hedge funds sitting on a lot of fixed-rate assets financed with short-term assets. You are going to see significant issues in any type of company that has this type of trade on.

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

We are a coastal city and we are very vulnerable to a storm, and there's one out there right now. We are not financially prepared for that storm. . . . It isn'ta question of if a storm of this nature hits Citrus County. It is a question of when.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I remember one of my first jobs, there was an old guy who had a fruit stand, I think it was Seven Corners I helped him out one summer.

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

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

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

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

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

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

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.

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

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

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 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.

What I probably said was that some of the things I learned on Four Mile Run came in handy later on when I was living along the Zambesi.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

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.

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

I started to pursue a career in baseball.

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

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

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

It's a tremendous honor, but I played with some great players and coached some great players. We always had sports. We were always friends on and off the field or court. Phil Jones (another inductee) has always been one of my best friends, and he still is.

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

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

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

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