The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.
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 other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.
That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.
Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.
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.
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.