 Along 4 Mile Run, there was a nice woods down in front of the house. I used to run around there. |
| I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees. |
| Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. |
| I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife. |
| 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. |
| Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type. |
| According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work. |
| The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. |
| We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park. |
| My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. |
| 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 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. |
| We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls. |
| Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded. |
| Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues. |
| But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington. |
| The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run. |
| There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan. |
| Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature. |
