Quotes About Stewardship

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.

For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we're also taking it back out again.

China will continue to play its part as a major and responsible country.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don't have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.