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"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."
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"Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues."
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"I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there."
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"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."
Trees
"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."
Animals
"I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife."
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"I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings."
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"How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security."
Earth
"I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School."
Church
"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."
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"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."
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