Quotes About Stewardship

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

See how little I value my water when it is taken by animals.

It requires good government. That does not depend upon laws or precedent, but upon the personal qualities of whoever governs.

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 historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis [...] You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

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

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.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

With regards to the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, I believe it lacks a balanced approach. It designates 79,000 acres as new wilderness while only opening up 6,000 acres for recreation.

I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.

Humans should be the Earth's custodians, not its butchers. Much attention - though not enough - focuses on the existential threat posed by climate change. But humanity's mass destruction of the Earth's wildlife is all too little discussed.

We need to stand as a nation, a state, a community to protect wildlife and wild places for our children.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.