Quotes About Stewardship

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

OUR MOTHER EARTH CAN LIVE WITHOUT US BUT WE CANT LIVE WITHOUT HER

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.

In leaving the people's business in their hands, we cannot be wrong.

maintenance budgets are among the very first things to go.

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We can't afford inaction any longer, and, frankly, there's just no excuse for it. We all want the same thing: for our children and the generations after them to inherit a clean and beautiful planet capable of supporting a healthy human civilization. That goal should transcend politics.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Stand unshod upon it, for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.