Quotes About Stewardship

But although it may not have occurred to you, everything that happens on this island is connected. My grandfather planted that lawn and four generations have been looking after it, keeping it perfect – not just for our pleasure but for everyone who passes.

As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.

It's a special thing to be a public company.

Public lands are for everyone's use. Be responsible when shooting and clean up the area you were shooting in so others can enjoy the land.

I've been very clear all along that public lands must stay in public hands.

I will protect public lands.

There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

My grandfather Prescott passed down the idea that you would only run for office after you had built a financial base - then it was time to give back and go into public service.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.

Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.

We can't just live as rentiers off the oil fund.

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

It is The Way," he said softly. "Take only what ye need. When ye take the deer, do not take the best. Take the smaller and the slower and then the deer will grow stronger and always give you meat. Pa-koh, the panther, knows and so must ye." And

superintendency

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record. We have the record in front of us and our course is obvious.