Quotes About Stewardship

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.

a culture is no better than its woods

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.