Quotes by Gifford Pinchot

• Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
• Innovations never happen as planned.
• The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
• The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.
• The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
• Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
• World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.