Gale Norton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
-- Gale Norton

#Heart #My Heart #Conservation
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
-- Gale Norton

#Innovation #Helping #Environment
We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
-- Gale Norton

#Country #Air #Quality
We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
-- Gale Norton

#Energy #India #Economy
I started out as a Democrat.
-- Gale Norton

#Democrat
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
-- Gale Norton

#Animal #People #Bird
I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.
-- Gale Norton

#Believe #Fighting #Needs
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
-- Gale Norton

#Government #Regulation #Way
Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
-- Gale Norton

#Growing Up #Mountain #Colorado
My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
-- Gale Norton

#Crazy #Schedules #Facts
In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
-- Gale Norton

#People #Effort #Labels
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
-- Gale Norton

#Thinking #Challenges #Trying
I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
-- Gale Norton

#Thinking #Needs #Today
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
-- Gale Norton

#Air #Years #Pollution
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
-- Gale Norton

#Long #Natural #Resources
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.
-- Gale Norton

#Hunting #America #Dating
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
-- Gale Norton

#Hippie #Littles #Young
Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
-- Gale Norton

#Cancer #Needs #Forests

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