Gifford Pinchot

Innovations never happen as planned.

— Gifford Pinchot

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

— Gifford Pinchot

I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to…

— Gifford Pinchot

I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.

— Gifford Pinchot

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat,

— Gifford Pinchot

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a…

— Gifford Pinchot

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old…

— Gifford Pinchot

Innovation never happens as planned.

— Gifford Pinchot

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

— Gifford Pinchot

If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target.

— Gifford Pinchot

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable…

— Gifford Pinchot

The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where…

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Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

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A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a…

— Gifford Pinchot

Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport…

— Gifford Pinchot

By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional…

— Gifford Pinchot

The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had…

— Gifford Pinchot

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.

— Gifford Pinchot

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the…

— Gifford Pinchot

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

— Gifford Pinchot

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

— Gifford Pinchot

I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at least a…

— Gifford Pinchot

The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.

— Gifford Pinchot

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

— Gifford Pinchot

Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest…

— Gifford Pinchot