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

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.
Jim Fowler

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

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

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

Haiti looks like a bomb hit it.
Jim Fowler

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

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

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.
Jim Fowler

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


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

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

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.
Jim Fowler

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.
Jim Fowler

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

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

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.
Jim Fowler

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

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.
Jim Fowler

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