JIM FOWLER

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

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.

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

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