15 Quotes by Gary Ferguson

The hunter, as Theodore Roosevelt defined him, a man who fights for the integrity of both his prey and the land that sustained it, is being too often overwhelmed by men concerned mostly with playing dress up and shooting guns.

The estimated value of the water filtration and storage services provided by the earth's forests is more than $4 trillion a year; as a corollary, for every 10 percent reduction of forest land, the cost of treating drinking water grow by about 20 percent.

On the other hand, we have three used-book stores, and they do half their business on the Internet.

I'd love to see somebody drill deep in this part of the country -- 5,000 feet or better. Hopefully some day somebody will do it.

I am elated because Oakland gets to have some new energy, some new perspective. I can just see the glee and the joy on the faces of everybody here, but more importantly, the togetherness.

I am confident that there will be a solution that will please both the city and the merchant community that is the good news. I think we are close enough and aren't far enough apart that with a little bit of tweaking and a little bit of give and take on each side we can come up with something that makes sense.

Having Starbucks downtown will make a statement about downtown being a place to do business.

I think the biggest loss is going to be the loss of dune, the loss of beach, the loss of protection. That's the scariest thing.

I think expansions send a great message to the community.