Quotes About Stewardship

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone -- and to no one.

I stand for what I stand on.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

Humanity has four and a half billion passionate advocates - but how many speak....for the gray wolf?....it is a man's duty to speak for the voiceless. A woman's obligation to aid the defenseless. Human needs do not take precedence over other forms of life; we must share this lovely, delicate, vapor-clouded little planet with all

My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.

The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.

Hayduke thought. Finally the idea arrived. He said, 'My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving. That's simple, right?

We always used to think it didn't matter, that when you mined out one area, or farmed it out, or overgrazed it, you could move to new country beyond the hills, keep moving West. But there are no new places to go anymore. The land is full. We have to stay where we are, take care of what we have. There isn't going to be anything else.

If God meant this here bulldozer to live He wouldn't of filled its tank with diesel fuel.

Keep it like it was.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.

We [God] charge not any soul save to its capacity.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!

For 2,600 years, the man continues, those of us in the Western tradition have been assured that the role of humanity is to subdue the earth. That all creation was created for us to harvest. And for 2,600 years we pretty much got away with it. Temperatures remained constant, seasons stayed predictable, and we cut down forests and fished out oceans and elevated one god above all others: Growth.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, in a green-spined hardcover that's right over there, one shelf away, JC179.R, said: You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!

Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility