"The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating……" — Gifford Pinchot
"The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness."
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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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