Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 654
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But we’ve used words like the balance of nature and ecology and ecosystems, conservation. Some of those mean a lot to the public, some don’t necessarily mean much. So anyway, I said, we gotta come up with something else. So I started thinking about it. I came up with a… Read More
And if I use the word environment, he’s okay with the word of conservation, but you talk about environmentalism to you and he doesn’t like that at all. As most many businesses and industries don’t like the word environment, because it gets restricted. Environmentalism is restricted. So I came up… Read More
Can I tell a little bit of a joke about the difference between conservation and another term that should be used?… Read More
Okay. Well, I was on a freighter, a Russian icebreaker going up to the north pole. And there was an advertising person there, and I recognize the fact that in our day, you know, things haven’t changed a whole lot ’cause some of our communication terms are not strong enough… Read More
So what term can I use that’s more powerful than the word conservation?… Read More
Now, this was before the days that the ideas sustainability got popular. Read More
What really is conservation all about?… Read More
I’ll give you a good example. I gotta cut away from that for a second. Read More
Now, the fact is, conservation comes from the days of the, what do you call it?… Read More
When the soil was being blown away out of the Midwest. It was soil conservation that’s how it started during the big, you know– (indistinct) Pardon. The dust bowl. Yeah, the dust bowl. That’s where soil conservation came from. Sorry. (laughs) So I’ll say it again. Read More
The word conservation from the days of the dust bowl, when we were losing the soil, and we’ve hung on to that term and I’ll tell you why?… Read More
Bureaucratically, it’s safe. Nobody’s gonna be against you if you talk about conservation. But I don’t think it’s a communication term. It doesn’t tell the public, the person you’re talking to. Read More
He said, “Jim, just to remember, “the one thing you need to do is learn English, “vocab study and speech.” That’s the best advice I ever got, because I was not necessarily focused on speech, but I learned not just because he told me, but I learned through experience that… Read More
Do you think that zoos and aquariums are doing enough to support in situ conservation?… Read More
Boy! Now you’ve gotten me really in a tough spot. It all comes back to communication again, because the word conservation is not a communication term. So when you use the word conservation, let me say a couple of things about that. They shouldn’t use the word conservation loosely ’cause… Read More
And then it’s a successful zoological park. Read More
What was the most important piece of advice that you received that’s kind of stayed with you throughout your career?… Read More
Advice on what basis personally or?… Read More
Professionally– Oh, I’ll tell you. (indistinct) that has guided you– I think I can answer that. (laughs) I’ve had to rely on a lot of advice. ‘Cause I had quite a few brothers and they’re always telling me what to do. But no, when I went to college, I went… Read More