Quotes About Stewardship

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability.

Seeing Earth from here is quite spectacular, and it also makes me realize how important it is that we do all that we can to take care of it.

I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.

The sphinx will always have to be looked after.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it's all a waste and a sin to take it if you can't use it.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

I'll handle the money." "But we have no money." "That is why you need someone to handle it.

A HEB is a steward, not an owner.

extravagant generosity with other people's money.