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

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.

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

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

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.

If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.