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

The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever e….

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….

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 w….

Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number….

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

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

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact..

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

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 effecti….

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperi….

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations….

The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he h….

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

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 a….

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….

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

Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and tr….

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 th….

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 a….

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