Quotes About Stewardship

If our national parks are to remain viable in the future, they must become sites of transformation where the paradigm of domination and manipulation ends and a vision of unison begins

Again and again, we find this common story of the establishment of our national parks: a handful of people who fall in love with a place, see it threatened, want to protect it for the future, and have the passion and patience to attract the necessary funding and political clout to make it happen.

We form the future by being caretakers of our past.

One of his self–imposed tasks was to go about the house after Lester, or the servants, turning out the gas–jets or electric–light bulbs which might accidentally have been left burning. That was a sinful extravagance.

Your body is not just yours. It is a gift and a responsibility.

My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.

It is proper to say that the Christian's primary purpose as a steward is to add to the estate of his Master and not to that of his own.

As you grow in living life on purpose and saying no to the wrong things, you will better invest your time and gifts where they count the most. In your effort to live wisely with your time, be careful that you don't see time as just yours. God has gifted you with time. Our time is not really our time. God gives it to us to steward well for his purpose. So be careful of becoming too stingy with your time! There has to be a balance.

Earth is ours. I'm not letting them have it. I'm not letting them destroy it. Not on my watch.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

When Chief Oren Lyons of the Iroquois Onondaga Nation was invited to address students at the University of Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, he highlighted this risk. 'What you call resources we call our relatives,' he explained. 'If you can think in terms of relationships, you are going to treat them better, aren't you? . . . Get back to the relationship because that is your foundation for survival.

effective systems tend to have three properties—healthy hierarchy, self-organisation and resilience—and so should be stewarded to enable these characteristics to emerge.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

Only he will deserve the name of "man" and can count upon anything prepared for them from above, who has already acquired corresponding data for being able to preserve intact both the wolf and the sheep entrusted to his care.

Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first.

never to use the expression "mere words." Words are never "mere." They are strong and beautiful. Use them carefully, for language is both a powerful gift and a serious stewardship. Say nothing you will not be pleased to meet on Judgment Day.

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

The Queen prides herself on being parsimonious, so nothing is ever allowed to be wasted in the Royal Household. Newspapers are shredded and used as bedding in the stables; uneaten food is recycled as compost by the gardeners; and Household uniforms are retained for generations. One former footman, named Nigel, said that

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.

Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.