Pinchot Quotes

#1. Though a degree from Yale was not required, Pinchot wanted his foresters to be able to write well, for the numerous reports that their enemies in Congress would be second-guessing.

Timothy Egan

#2. In Pinchot, he saw someone "who could relish, not run from a rainstorm," as he wrote. Just like himself.

Timothy Egan

#3. 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.

Gifford Pinchot

#4. A lack of resources may slow you down, but don't let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!

Robert H. Schuller

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

Gifford Pinchot

#6. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

David Steindl-Rast

#7. I thought about Maggie and how passion was a difficult thing to sustain, but that friendship had a pace that could go on forever.

Craig Johnson

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

Gifford Pinchot

#9. 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

Bronson Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

#11. I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Bronson Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

#13. 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.

Gifford Pinchot

#14. 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.

Gifford Pinchot

#15. IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Vernor Vinge

#16. 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.

Gifford Pinchot

#17. Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

Charles Kingsley

#18. 'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Bronson Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

#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

Gifford Pinchot

#21. 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.

Gifford Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

#23. Innovation never happens as planned.

Gifford Pinchot

#24. I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

Bronson Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

#26. She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

Kanye West

#27. Innovations never happen as planned.

Gifford Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

#29. When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you stronger in your faith.

Art Hochberg

#30. We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists.

Ted Cruz

#31. 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.

Gifford Pinchot

#32. I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

Bronson Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

#34. 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.

Gifford Pinchot

#35. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#36. If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.

Bronson Pinchot

#37. You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

Bronson Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot