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

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

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

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 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.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

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.

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

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

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

I am a girl who loves life and loves people and I find that in this life there are more good people than bad and that is who I choose to surround myself with.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.