As I said, I was raised in the Salt Lake Valley on a small farm. And at the time it was a very poor farm, and we were poor people. We went to the area first to live in a tent because the home that we eventually acquired was an… Read More
We started out farming with horses so that I knew how to manage them. First, I rode the cultivating horse. We planted trees, we had an orchard, primarily peaches and apricots, and we graduated eventually to a tractor, but it wasn’t until I was probably out of the house that… Read More
And I was doing major farm work at age 12, I would go out and mow hay all day long. I learned actually to drive an old pickup truck when I was about eight years old, I had to put blocks on the pedals of the car. So I just… Read More
My name is Murray Fowler. And actually I was born in Glendale on Whidbey Island in Washington a few years ago, and grew up essentially in the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. Read More
And what’s your birthday?… Read More
I was born on July 17th, 1928. Now you’ve had a pretty unusual childhood by today’s standards. Read More
“This just isn’t working out like I wanted it to work out. “This just isn’t working out like I want it to work out. Read More
“Can I can I, can I leave?” You know what?… Read More
I’ll find that person a job quicker than the guy that sits there and makes it miserable for everybody else. Let me know if you don’t like it you’ll be the best employee there is by doing that. Read More
You’d probably be pushed out by the keepers. But now today we accept our interns. Most all zoos do. We accept those people who want to volunteer. We accept those kids that want to do our zoo volunteers up until age 13, where they can then start working after that. Read More
And yet it is something a lot of people want to do, but you know what?… Read More
I admire that person the most, that tells me when they worked here for one month, I admire that person most that comes to me and says, “You know something, Mr. Hanna?… Read More
I know that the profession today, I’ve devoted so many years of my life to is an incredible profession. I encourage anybody and everybody that ever wants to do something. And by the way,go work at a vet clinic, go walk dogs, okay, go do something for a hospital. Go… Read More
Like I did. All of us love animals. I mean, most everybody does, but to take it to that next level, you might want to do what I did. Not the TV, forget that crap. I’m talking about to do it, I feel so proud of, I didn’t mention one… Read More
Not a zoo director, or curator, all that other stuff. I just dreamed about being a frigging zookeeper. That’s all, and I got to live that dream. So you will live it too. You will live it too. Trust me, but don’t go out there and just go to college,… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
Let me, all right, let’s let that go on by. The reason you’re hearing trucks here, everybody watching this, is because we’re building this Africa, and everybody’s a little nervous right now because it rains every single day. And now we’re turning it into an Ark. Read More
The, what’s the question (laughs)?… Read More
Do you know about the profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
A bit better, whether a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition. I know for a fact, the zoo is much better than it was. I had some part to play. Not everything took a lot of people to do it, but I should tell you now… Read More