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Jim Fowler [1932-0] American

Rank: 106
Scientist, Television host

Jim Fowler is a professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Fowler spent his youth in the Town of Falls Church, VA exploring all things in nature in the stream valley of Four Mile Run near his family home.

Environmental, Space, Attitude, Family, Respect

Quote	Tags	Rank
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.		101
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.	Attitude	102
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.	Environmental, Space	103
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.		104
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.	Family	105
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.		106
I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.		107
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.		108
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.		109
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.	Space	110
I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.		111
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.	Respect	112
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.	Environmental	113
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.		114
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.		115
Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.		116
I'm a little different from all those conservation types.		117
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.		118
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.		119
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.		120
The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.		121
Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.		122
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.		123
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.		124
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.		125
Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there.		126
But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.		201
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.		202
I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.		203
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.		204
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.		205
Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.		206
Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.		207
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.		208
That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.		209
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.		210

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