Quotes About Stewardship

If you do not provide your body with true nourishment, it becomes obese, diseased, and disabled. If a farmer does not provide nourishment to the soil, it becomes infertile, diseased, and deadened.

It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth's caretakers.

what was the very first injunction laid by the Lord upon our first ancestor? . . . name all the beasts .

But property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

Little jobs require little men, and it's the little jobs that keep a kingdom running.

a president views, interviews, and reviews everything he presides over, if he's doing his job in the correct manner.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

El que paga manda. Se lo aprendí tan bien a mi papá que hasta la fecha no he dejado de aplicarlo. Si entiendes eso, todo se hace más fácil. No es cosa de dinero, sino de inversión. El que más invierte tiene la palabra.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.

It wasn't obvious that repurposing every aspect of the planet for our own benefit wasn't really to our benefit at all.

the subduing of the earth, that is, the whole of culture, is given to him, and can be given to him only because he is created after God's image; man can be ruler of the earth only because and in so far as he is a servant, a son of God.

We are running this planet like a business in liquidation.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

If it were possible for every person to own a tree and to care for it, the good results would be beyond estimation.

The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We must walk softly, leaving as small a footprint as possible.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.