Jim Fowler (born April 9, 1932 in Albany, Georgia) is an American professional zoologist and host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
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'm a little different from all those conservation types.
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
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.
That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. 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.
I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
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.
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
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.
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.