Quotes About Stewardship

Rule wisely, oh king, for the land is your flesh, its people your blood.

He answered some governors who had written to recommend an increase in the burden of provincial taxation, with: 'A good shepherd shears his flock; he does not flay them.

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

Love the Earth You Make Love On

One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.

The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.

Virtuous theologians work as God's stewards building God's home (1 Cor. 3:9), not masters building their own little empires.

You need nature more than she needs you. It is not an equal relationship. Serve her well and she will look after you. Abuse her and everyone loses.

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A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.

Then again, this is The Nature Conservancy, which has its very own gas well in the middle of a nature preserve in Texas).52

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

there was no need to injure the shrubs, since we had already injured the quail.

Did you think of anyone else?" Enid had asked the folk of this household. "Did you think of the next generation that'll have to work this land and wonder why they're getting half the yield they should? Or the ones who'll starve when the land gives up because you"—she had pointed at them, with two stiff fingers—"couldn't be bothered to take care of it?

Man does not make these natural resources--man only develops them, only uses them for work....How can a man own ground and space and sunlight and rain for crops?

A place isn't really yours until you clean it.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit.