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“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!”

Names Growth Nature Smart Butterfly Bees Conservation Breeze Amen Smart Growth

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.”

Shows Order Growth Nature Community Economy Environment Healthy Smart Built Green Show Me Conservation Infrastructure Smart Growth

Author:Will Rogers

“The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.”

Ifs Wells Looks Important Reason Growth Nature Community Economic Smart Well Being No Reason Conservation Smart Growth

Author:Ed McMahon

“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.”

“High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.”

Use Growth Nature Decision Views Successful Land Taxes Smart Investment Environmental Employee Conservation Housing Employers Transportation Land Use Smart Growth

Author:Carl Guardino

“The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.”

“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.”

“Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.”

Ifs Use Care Growth Nature Community Levels Teacher Plans Failing Smart Workers Income Variety Officers Conservation Housing Employers Firefighter Retail Rant Smart Growth

Author:Carl Guardino

“Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.”

Ifs Form Nature Willing Bigger Congress Appropriate Conservation Loops Smart Growth Paved Roads

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.”

Source: Selected poems

“The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.”

Doe Country Sound Nature Silence Parks Conservation Confined Tense Smart Growth

Author:Elizabeth Bowen