Quotes About Responsibility

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.