Global Stewardship Quotes

So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

Take good care of our fragile planet.

Who will speak for Planet Earth?

The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we choose to do so.

About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.

If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.

The only thing to do is say, "If you generate it in your country, you take care of it.

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.

The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.

We do have responsibilities, as we live on this planet. It is our one and only home, which we are obligated to protect, to keep as beautiful and harmonious as it is. It is really for everyone to do so, including you and me.

My mission on this planet hasn't changed. I want to nurture the planet, to guide the planet, to help the planet.

I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing.

We have a moral obligation to straighten out the world before we mess up space.

We always have to remind ourselves of how fragile life on this planet is and what responsibilities we have.

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.