Quotes About Stewardship

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side