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

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.

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.

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

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

For the first time ever we sympathized with the President because we saw how wildly our sphere of influence was misrepresented by those in no position to know what was going on.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

I personally believe that professional athletes should give back to their communities in any way possible. We are in a position to make a difference.

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!