"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans." — Jim Fowler

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.

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.

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.