Jim Fowler Quotes & Sayings

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

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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