Environmental Stewardship Quotes

• 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.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Baby, Love Life, Animal

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• 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.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Exercise, Justice, Growth

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

  John Muir

  Motivational, Wisdom, Nature

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Eugene V. Debs

  Country, Fighting, Countries Of The World

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Environmental, Links

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Mean, Humanity

  "The Diversity of Life". Book by Edward O. Wilson, 1992.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Educational, Men

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Math, Garden

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

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Men, Mankind

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Zero, Men, Thinking

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• 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?

  Paul Sears

  Mother, Powerful, Cities

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Human Nature, Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  David Attenborough

  Stars, Two, Care

  "Is it worth saving the world’s most worthless species?". www.iucn.org. November 26, 2012.

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

  Harrison Ford

  Strength, Nature, Health

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• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Population Problem, Decision

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.42, Best Books on

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

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• 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.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Power, Men

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• 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!

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Moon, Thinking, Usa

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• Everyone needs help from everyone.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Collaboration, Needs, Helping

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

  Jeff McNeely

  Years, Chains, Complexity

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

  Bindi Irwin

  Nature, Stars, Awkward

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• 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.

  Thom Yorke

  Son, Age, Want

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• 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.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Teamwork, Discovery, Mind

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• 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.

  Jim Fowler

  Environmental, World, Littles

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• There is no one subsists by himself alone.

  Owen Feltham

  Dependence

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