Jim Fowler Quotes

• 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.

  Jim Fowler

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Environmental, Saving, Plants

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

• 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.

  Jim Fowler

• 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.

  Jim Fowler

• 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.

  Jim Fowler

• My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

• 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.

  Jim Fowler

• 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.

  Jim Fowler

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

  Jim Fowler

Jim Fowler (36)

Birth:	9th April, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Naturalist, Television Presenter

About

Jim Fowler was born in Albany, Georgia, USA. He is an American naturalist and host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. He studied at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. In 1997, he joined Discovery Communication's Animal Planet as a wildlife expert and later launched the television program Jim Fowler's Life in the Wild in 2000. He is the author of book, entitled Jim Fowler's Wildest Places on Earth. In 1991, Earlham College recognized Fowler for his distinguished career with an Outstanding Alumni Award.

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