Stewards Of The Earth Quotes

#1. The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

James E. Lovelock

#2. Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

Kofi Annan

#3. Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value ... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.

George W. Bush

#4. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

James Cameron

#5. Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#7. Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

Northrop Frye

#8. As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

Pope Francis

#9. The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Robert Powell

#10. They are coming and they will speak to us all. Their message will terrify us to our core. Only then will we act! "We must move now to save ourselves and our dear planet. We owe it to those who placed life here. We were supposed to be stewards. Instead, we have been rapists of mother earth.

B.C. Chase

#11. In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to a human being with his skin removed.

Erik Larson

#12. We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Stephen Jay Gould

#13. A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely.

Christine Caine

#15. There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

Jane Goodall

#16. Through work, we serve, minister, and become God's stewards on the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless excesses. The earth is a trust, to protect and to honor. Our home, our livelihood, our future rests in the quality of our stewardship. Let us become better stewards.

Helen Caldicott

#18. Life is an optical illusion;means whatever you feel is happening is actually not happening and whatever looks is not happening is actually happening.

Rajesh Walecha

#19. His knives are nice. Mine is better.

C.J. Redwine

#20. The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

Richard Wexler

#21. True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

John Vanbrugh

#22. The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Steven Weinberg

#23. If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.

Carroll Shelby

#24. The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

Douglas J. Moo

#26. There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

Patrick Rothfuss

#27. We can possess nothing - no property and no person ... It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.

Billy Graham