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Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) 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. He was a member of the Republican Party for most of his life, though he also joined the Progressive Party for a brief period.

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

Conservation, Efficiency, Inevitable, Result, Results

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.

Greatest, Lumbering, Making, Practice, Science, Walking Sticks

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

Forester, Governor, Governors, Has Beens, Now And Then, Time

The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness.

Hands, Land, Men, Natural, Slice, Territory

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

Facts, Fantasy, Gradual, Learning, Replacements

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.

Education, Emotional, Learning, Mistake, School

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

Earth, Mean, Men, Wise

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, Work

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

Citizens, Republican, Democrat, Thing, Greater

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.

Beautiful, Home, Forests, Wild, Secondary, Becomes

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.

Long, Number, Numbers, Reconciled, Run, Running

Innovation never happens as planned.

Happens, Innovation, Planned

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 entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.

Yield, Average, Ideas, Touched, Heads

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

Controlling, National, Safety, Welfare, World

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.

Broken, Coaching, Effectiveness, Fixing, Goal

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, Favor, Meant, Men, Moon, Woods