Gifford Pinchot Quotes

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

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#2. Innovation never happens as planned.

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#3. The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

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#4. Innovations never happen as planned.

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

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#6. 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 continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

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#7. I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon ... But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them ... My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry.

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

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.

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

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

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

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#15. Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

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#16. The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

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#17. Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

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#18. The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary.

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

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#20. In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

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