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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Just because you did not understand us, it did not mean we were wrong.

I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.

In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.

I write in the studio.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.