The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

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.

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

Anybody who listens to their intuition risk at times making other people disappointed or even pissed off because you're not tending to what they want from you but instead to what feels right for you.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

I really am a firm believer that if you're going to do something musically, you really need to know what that music would have sounded like, what those instruments would have been.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.

In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.

As far as being a coach, it's always fascinated me. It's a greater responsibility than most people give it credit for because you're dealing with people.

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.