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…

- Gifford Pinchot

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

- 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…

- Gifford Pinchot

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…

- Gifford Pinchot

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

- Gifford Pinchot

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

- Gifford Pinchot

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

- Gifford Pinchot

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

- Gifford Pinchot

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

- Gifford Pinchot