By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time. — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat, — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
