Jim Fowler

Scientist

1932-04-09

Quotes by Jim Fowler

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

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