5 Quotes & Sayings By Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot was born in New York, and educated at Yale and Columbia. He was a newspaper publisher and editor, author, and advocate for conservation. Pinchot was instrumental in the passage of the U.S. Forest Service Act Read more

He served as Chief Forester of the United States Forest Service from 1905 to 1913, and as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1913 to 1921. The Gifford Pinchot Center for Conservation is named in his honor.

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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. Gifford Pinchot
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The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. Gifford Pinchot
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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. Gifford Pinchot
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Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. Gifford Pinchot