Quotes About Stewardship

We steward the presence of God by learning to obey the commands "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 4:30) and "Do not quench the Spirit" (1 Thessalonians 5:19). We grieve Him when we do something wrong; we quench Him when we fail to do what is right, stopping the flow of His love and power that comes from the Father.

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

Humans Control the Earth; Nerds Should Guide the Humans

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Character – the inner world of motives and values that shapes our actions – is the ultimate determiner of the nature of our leadership. It empowers our capacities while keeping them in check. It distinguishes those who steward power well from those who abuse power. Character weaves such values as integrity, honesty, and selfless service into the fabric of our lives, organizations, and cultures.

I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.