Quotes About Stewardship

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

Moreover God hath ordained man in this world, as it were, the very image of himself, to the intent, that he, as it were a god on earth, should provide for the wealth of all creatures.

Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don't forget to protect her.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

With great power comes great responsibilty.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

The way we treat the land is the way we treat each other, and the ways of humans to each other are as ecologically important as a water table.

Sas soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be

As soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be.

Even animals know better than to foul their own nest

The office of the church is ministerial—to publish and make known the word of God; but not magister ial and absolute—to make it Scripture, or unmake it, as she is pleased to allow or deny her stamp.

it is the duty of shareholders to periodically suffer loss without complaint.

Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land, Buck. This beautiful, tender land.