Quotes About Stewardship

My clients are the whales and the seals.

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

A low-water economy should rest on the principle that water be left in its natural state in the environment as much as possible. Every drop extracted must be justified. Every drop used must be recycled and reused whenever possible.

It is a priority of my administration to continue New Hampshire's long tradition of Environmental Conservationism.

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.

Our farmers are constantly deploying conservation techniques that keep our environment strong - and it's time we made them a consistent part of our efforts to protect it.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

ane hunder pundis will do mair presently to the said work nor ane thousand pundis will do quhen it is fallin downe

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving your own money.

The land was ours before we were the land's.She was our land more than a hundred yearsBefore we were her people.

Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a history. Now you're part of it. Good night. And off they go.

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

One man gathers what another man spills