John M. Gaus

"The study of public administration must include its ecology. "Ecology," states the Webster Dictionary, "is the mutual relations, collectively, between organisms and their environment." J. W. Bews poin…"

"Leonard D. White's desire "to organize his own knowledge" reminds us of how much hacking away at a jungle has to be done at such an early stage in the study of and reporting on a new field."

"You who are apprentices in the field of public administration share with me who am older the task of trying to understand the new conditions in our field. Within a single generation, two world wars an…"

"An ecological approach to public administration builds, then, quite literally from the ground up; from the elements of a place — soils, climate, location, for example — to the people who live there — …"

"The task will be more fruitfully performed if the citizen, and his agents in public offices, understand the ecology of government."

"New plains frontier was politically organized and opened and settled with little, if any, heed to its natural features of climate and land cover."

"Organization is the arrangement of personnel for facilitating the accomplishment of some agreed purpose through the allocation of functions and responsibilities. It is the relat­ing of efforts and cap…"

"John M. Gaus papers, 1907-1969"