Quotes About Stewardship

The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

You'd think, given a planet nine-tenths covered in water and a solar system with no other habitable biospheres, that people would be careful with that real estate.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations as boni patres familias [good heads of the household].

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

Jesus wants men who will rule well.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.

Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.