Jim Fowler Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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'm a little different from all those conservation types.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

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.

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.

We will dissect the lake for them, then let them fish the following weekend to determine how much the juniors learned,

We need to be more aggressive about expanding our customer base,

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

I started to pursue a career in baseball.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

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