Gale Norton Quotes

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• I was a little too young to be a hippie.
• Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.
• Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
• I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
• I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting…
• In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
• I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.
• What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
• Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people…
• I started out as a Democrat.
• We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits:…
• Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
• Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
• We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.
• The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise,…

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