Quotes About Stewardship

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

Great power involves great responsibility

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.