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Quotes About Stewardship

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.
~ Cyril Connolly
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.
~ Kenny Ausubel
You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.
~ Rick Warren
But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.
~ Costa Georgiadis
Property in everyday life, is the right of control.
~ Louis O. Kelso
Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.
~ Pope Francis
With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future.
~ Arron Wood
We are the custodians of life's meaning.
~ Carl Sagan
If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes.
~ Carl Sagan
This plan, of betting only at a level at which I was emotionally comfortable and not advancing until I was ready, enabled me to play my system with a calm and disciplined accuracy. This lesson from the blackjack tables would prove invaluable throughout my investment lifetime as the stakes grew ever larger. Eddie
~ Edward O. Thorp
Destroying forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
~ Edward O. Wilson
From the beginning, God intended for men and women to shine with dignity in their role as caretakers of the rest of creation.
~ Edward William Fudge
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,Is this the handiwork you give to God?
~ Edwin Markham
If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.
~ Eihei Dogen
What had they been thinking of, those people then? They had left their descendants almost no water and great mountains of uranium. What kind of inheritance was that? How did they think we were going to survive?
~ Eleanor Arnason
conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Each of us, ultimately, is responsible in large part for the welfare of his community, for the kind of government he has, for the world he lives in.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
~ Anthony Trollope
"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
~ Anton Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game
~ Arnold Palmer