So she knows big cities. My son and daughter, amazingly enough, because we did live in the middle of New York City for awhile. They grew up part of the time there. I finally got them out to an area in Connecticut that has a lot of forest and ponds… Read More
And then we’ll break is, how did you first get involved on the Johnny Carson show?… Read More
It all became real to them. So they’d learned a few things on these trips. Yeah. They must have thought it was pretty cool for dad to be doing all this things. Well, yeah, I don’t know. I think they do now. Yeah. Yeah, and of course then when you’re… Read More
I took them quite a few (indistinct). I took my daughter to the Antarctic once when she was quite young, and my son went around a lot with me, my wife loved to travel, but she also was a… She’s a wildlife artist. My wife, Betsey. And artists have a… Read More
Well, I was lucky to be able to take some of my family with me. Marlin Perkins on his travels his wife insisted on going along, and I was able to take my wife and my kids when my kids were six and eight years old. I had them on… Read More
And I knew how to bluff elephants. So I got out of the car and rushed over there, and tried to bluff the elephant. It was a male. Had it been a female, especially with a calf, we’d all be in trouble. But I was able to extricate the two… Read More
I’ll never forget Mark got it. My son Mark got educated pretty quickly because we were in a open Land Rover once driving through an area along the Zambezi. And we had some wardens up ahead of us and some African scouts. And they had rifles with them, because in… Read More
She was gonna try to kill us. And the thing is (indistinct). (chuckles) The driver, my cameraman, he didn’t quite understand what was going on. And I looked around the first thing I knew my son’s eyes were pretty big and the closest the elephant God, the bigger his eyes… Read More
Did they participate?… Read More
Were they involved in your work?… Read More
How did you balance that?… Read More
If you destroy the ocean and start contaminating it, you’re gonna weaken the phytoplankton. The big gaps in the ocean today where there’s no phytoplankton, places like New Jersey where they’ve dumped millions of tons of garbage out there. They don’t realize that they’re taking a chance on reducing the… Read More
Once you know that law, you know that the phytoplankton is consumed by small organisms in the ocean. Then the larger organisms, the smaller fish will eat those organisms. And it goes right up to the point where the fur seals Pribilof Islands can only be sustainable at a certain… Read More
As you’ve looked at some of these things that you’ve talked about and started to think about them. Yeah. You’ve gathered this from your travels all over and seeing those things. Exactly. Read More
Now, on a more personal level what was your family life like while you’re doing this?… Read More
And guess what?… Read More
It all starts with what we call the phytoplankton in the oceans. The phytoplankton due to the reaction of the sun, it’s got a chlorophyll. It’s… We don’t know whether it’s an animal or a plant or both, but it’s a very small organism that’s proliferates in a natural system… Read More
How many people know that?… Read More
What could possibly be a stronger mission for science than to identify the basic laws of nature that are, by the way, not controversial, how this earth works?… Read More
What are the basic laws of nature that allow us to sustain life on this planet?… Read More