Quotes About Stewardship

I like to feel that I've paid rent on the piece of earth I'm using.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

Tuhan telah menganugerahkan bakat istimewa kepadamu. Tugasmu saat ini adalah mengasah bakatmu karena orang yang menyia-nyiakan bakat pemberian Tuhan sama saja dengan seekor keledai.

Amid all this there's plenty of talk about saving the earth. I'll tell you, the earth has taken some hard hits in the past. It'll survive. What needs saving, I believe, is the human race and our ability to restrain ourselves, if we have such a thing. What needs saving is the rich tapestry of life around us that we take for granted. What needs saving—perhaps even found to begin with—is the intrinsic value of nature beyond any human utility.

the seven generations rule, thinking seven generations back and seven generations forward, and seven times seven

What's good is what's good for the land.

Another man said I don't own my kids' teacher, I don't own my doctor, I don't need to own my house. I just want to pay the collective for it, not some landlord.

It took knowing every rock and plant and animal and fish and bird, that was the way they did it. You had to love the land the way you loved yourself. Because it was you anyway. It took knowing all the other parts of yourself so well that nothing was misunderstood or exploited.

we can't imagine the suffering of the people of the future, so nothing much gets done on their behalf. What we do now creates damage that hits decades later, so we don't charge ourselves for it, and the standard approach has been that future generations will be richer and stronger than us, and they'll find solutions to their problems. But by the time they get here, these problems will have become too big to solve. That's the tragedy of the time horizon

What's good is what's good for the land. Instead of working for profit, we do whatever is good for the land. Taking care of the land takes better care of the people over the long haul.

Ya sptryu na to shto prenodlezhit mne.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

You are a guest of nature - behave.

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

We are children of the Earth...respect your mother.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.

We must protect and share the world.

Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?

With regard to other animals, humans have long since become gods. We don't like to reflect on this too deeply, because we have not been particularly just or merciful gods.

Just as there is no barrier between humans and other beings, neither is there a strict hierarchy. Non-human entities do not exist merely to provide for the needs of man. Nor are they all-powerful gods who run the world as they wish. The world does not revolve around humans or around any other particular group of beings.