A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires … - Gifford Pinchot

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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

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, Work

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

Greatest, Nature, Number, Numbers, People, Time

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.

Comfort, Use, Shelter, Material, Resources, Prosperity

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

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

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

Earth, Mean, Men, Wise