Quotes About Stewardship

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Be a voice for the future and a voice for the planet.

The land belongs to the future.

The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.