"I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time."

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Source : Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.137, Island Press

Gifford Pinchot

#Now And Then Quotes

“Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.”
“Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.”
“The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.”
“Whether I'm on the road or at home, I get a great deal done on elliptical machines. I use my iPad to conquer my email inbox, listen to audio books, use my Voxer Walkie Talkie app, and read through documents.”
“I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.”
“For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.”
“If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures ... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.”

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