I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
I'm a little different from all those conservation types.
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.
Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
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.
I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.
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 always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.
But I'll tell you what, there was a lot of farmland between Falls Church and Washington.
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.
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.