Quotes About Stewardship

We are the first family, and every bird that flies overhead, every breath that is taken, every drop of water that falls, it all belongs to us. We make the laws here. We own whatever you can see. Never let one handful of soil slip through your fingers, or you will lose it all.

what should have been their first care—the unity and prosperity of their own nation;

Remember, Weed: The good of one tree is not important. The good of the forest is what matters.

Who is this woman who preached of the "web of life" that all creation shares, but who warned that "the earth must not be injured, the earth must not be destroyed"—and that if humans misuse creation, "God will permit creation to punish humanity"?

so bad a thing is it to invade God's property, and so cautious should we be to abstain from all appearances of this evil.

The best use we can make of our worldly wealth is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity.

That proves to be most wasted which is covetously and distrustfully spared.

The talents we are entrusted with must not be laid up, but laid out; not hid in a napkin, but traded with.

29  And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30  And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside.

Es urgente pues detener este «ecocidio» de los océanos, uno de los ecosistemas más preciados y más útiles para el equilibrio del planeta, que no obstante ha sido rebajado al rango de «recurso económico» o de basurero.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Money takes care of those who take care of money. Invest it with care and it will take care of you.

Nature is doing wonderful things for you; what are you doing for the nature?

Sometimes, man must refuse to win, especially against the nature!

Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.

Harper's Conservatives have used three basic methods to undermine environmental stewardship in Canada: reduce the government's capacity to gather data; downsize or eliminate offices that monitor and analyze scientific information; and seize control of channels of scientific information and prevent the publication or release of any information that could interfere with government policy.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

Choose your battles well. There is no point in launching a fight over some minor matter. Pay your parking tickets, but fight like hell if your land is under threat, if your local farmers' market is being moved or closed, or the open wild land next door is proposed for two hundred condominiums.

Joseph—foster father to a fatherless world, living icon of the Father.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

How did the Barnharts decide how much was enough? Our principle is that the Army cook shouldn't eat a whole lot better than the troops. Those of us who're in a position to generate wealth aren't entitled to a different lifestyle than the rest of the body, the rest of the troops. We may need different tools, just like that cook, but our lives shouldn't be so different.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.