Quotes About Stewardship

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Man must conquer nature.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

Nature does not forgive.

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

We understand that we must make peace with nature - that our lives depend on it.

As you love the Earth, so shall she love you.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.

God created man to care for the earth.