The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls.

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

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.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.