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.
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
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 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 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.
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
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.
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.