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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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 ….

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

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

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

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 lef….

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

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 ….

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

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing.