Quotes from Jim Fowler


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


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.


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


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


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


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


Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.


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


My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.


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


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


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.


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.


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


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