Quotes About Stewardship

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

I cannot subscribe to this modern idea that we should feel guilty about our role on earth

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.

If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.