Gale Norton Quotes & Sayings

“Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.”

“What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.”

“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.”

“I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.”

“I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.”

“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.”

“The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.”

“Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.”

“I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.”

“I was a little too young to be a hippie.”