Gifford Pinchot Quotes

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

Gifford Pinchot

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

Gifford Pinchot

Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport us. Upon them we depend for every material necessity, comfort, convenience, and protection in our lives. Without abundant resources prosperity is out of reach.

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

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

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

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 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

Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot

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Born: August 11, 1865

Died: October 4, 1946 (aged 81)

Bio: Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935.

Known for:

The fight for conservation (1910)
A primer of forestry (1899)
Fishing talk (1936)
The training of a forester (1914)

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