Quotes by Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot

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.

Ideas

Morning

People

By exposing yourself to risk, you’re exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you’re learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available.

Emotional

Mistake

School

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

Common Sense

Conservation

Problem

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

Mean

Men

Wise

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.

Father

Men

Moon

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

Governors

Has Beens

Now And Then

I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.

Practice

Science

Walking Sticks

If you aren’t getting flak, you aren’t over the target.

Ifs

Target

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

Safety

Welfare

World

Innovation never happens as planned.

Happens

Innovation

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Accountability

Aggravation

Average

Beautiful

Broken

Citizens

Comfort

Common Sense

Conservation

Democrat

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Emotional

Facts

Fantasy

Father

Forests

Foundation

Future

Goal

Governors

Hands

Happens

Has Beens

Home

Ideas

Ifs

Innovation

Land

Long

Mean

Men

Mistake

Moon

Morning

Nature

Now And Then

Numbers

Pay The Price

People

Practice

Problem

Reality

Replacements

Republican

Results

Running

Safety

School

Science

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Quotes by Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot

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.

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

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

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.

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

If you aren’t getting flak, you aren’t over the target.

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

Innovation never happens as planned.

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