Environmental Stewardship Quotes

It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

Everyone needs help from everyone.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.