Quotes About Stewardship

One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.

My goal is that after seeing 'Grand Canyon,' every person in the audience will go home knowing they have to conserve water: even something as simple as installing a low-flow toilet or showerhead, or turning off the faucet while they're brushing their teeth.

We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

You cannot put a contaminant in the ground and just think that Mother Nature whips it up and runs it off somewhere else and we never see it again.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

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The future leader in industry, to endure, must regard himself as a quasi-public official whose duty it is to manage his trust in such a way that it will work hardship on no individual, or group of individuals.

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

he had become the patriarch of horseflesh.

Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and raising fields, hunting bison and netting salmon, growing maize, manioc, and the Eastern Agricultural Complex, Native Americans had been managing their environment for thousands of years.

Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and raising fields, hunting bison and netting salmon, growing maize, manioc, and the Eastern Agricultural Complex, Native Americans had been managing their environment for thousands of years. As Cahokia shows, they made mistakes. But by and large they modified their landscapes in stable, supple, resilient ways.

Their alarm was easy to understand. The law would give control of a substantial part of the Amazon to its residents

In Ruby's mind, everything […] fell under the rule of the heavens. […] They were, as Ada saw them an expression of stewardship, a means of taking care, a discipline. They provide a ritual of concern for the patterns and tendencies of the material world where it might be seen to intersect with some other world.

Lord, help me to see that what I have has been given and this makes a claim on me to be generous and not to hold things simply to myself. Amen.

A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods.

We deliberately filled our rainy-day fund to its statutory capacity over my time leading the Mississippi Senate as lieutenant governor.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

Since we're all Mother Earth's children, I like to think that more and more of us will be out there helping her against those who are hurting her.

Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.