"Conservation means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time."
-Gifford Pinchot, American forester and politician
-Gifford Pinchot, American forester and politician
Context
The American preservationist movement began to take root through the works of many, including Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, both painters, and Henry Thoreau, a philosopher.
"Each town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, where a stick should never be cut for fuel, a common possession forever, for instruction and recreation."
-Henry David Thoreau, 1859 |