"Conservation is the application of common sense to……" — Gifford Pinchot
"Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good."
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Gifford Pinchot
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21 Quotes by Gifford Pinchot
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I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they…
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By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a…
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The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for those realities.
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The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to…
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I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at…
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Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of…
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I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.
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Innovations never happen as planned.
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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the…
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Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure…
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The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency
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Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men
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