Gifford Pinchot
First chief of US Forest Service who advocated conservation, stating that conservation means the greatest good for the greatest number.
Quotes by Gifford Pinchot
The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests from use, but to preserve them by use.
Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands, and minerals for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
The earth belongs to the living.
Unless we use the resources of this country, it will go to waste.
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem, it will avail us little to solve all others.
The greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time.
Forestry is the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man.
The conservation movement is a development of the new idea of the relation of man to the earth.
The first great fact about conservation is that it stands for development.
The second great fact about conservation is that it stands for the prevention of waste.
The third great fact about conservation is that it stands for the development of the country for the benefit of the many, and not for the special privilege of the few.
The conservation of natural resources is the key to the future.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
The earth and its resources belong to the people.
The conservation movement is a movement for the benefit of all the people.
The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.
The conservation of natural resources is the most important public question now before the people of the United States.
The conservation policy is a policy of common sense.
The fundamental idea of conservation is that of development, the use of the natural resources for the benefit of the people who live on the land.