Quotes About Stewardship

So much of our world has been brutally wrested from us; we now have to say enough. No more. Perhaps if enough individuals find out what is actually going on for themselves and start doing something about it, then maybe we can stave off the fast-advancing crisis and create a beautiful. healthy, livable planet where all life flourishes and man is free to rise to greater heights.

Was it always other creatures that had to pay for man's follies with their lives?

When one registers the fact that our very own survival depends upon the wellbeing of all life on our planet, one starts to understand that we are the ones responsible for the state we find Earth in today.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

his species could end, a victim of people who valued themselves above other creatures of nature. We

leave the world a better place than we found it

To develop a national park is to not have one.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

If we take care the Nature it will be our careful Mother.

A house was never taken good care of, Mr Shepherd observed, without a lady:

We're not really a very intelligent species when we destroy our home.

We need nature, but nature does not need us.

We must remember that we have not inherited this planet from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children. But we have not been borrowing their future, we have stolen it and we keep stealing it.

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.

When you run a company, you want to hand it off in better shape than you found it. In the same way, just as we shouldn't leave our children or grandchildren with mountains of national debt and unsustainable entitlement programs, we shouldn't leave them with the economic and environmental costs of climate change.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, and one Hoosiers entrusted me to uphold.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.