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.

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

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

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.

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

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

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.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

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

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.

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.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

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

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

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

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

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

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

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

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

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

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.

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

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

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.

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

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

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.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.