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.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

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.

Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.