Bequeath Quote by Julius Sterling Morton

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted…

— Julius Sterling Morton

Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford…

— Philip K. Chapman

What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at…

— Thomas Berry

Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children…

— Richard Branson

“our homes, communities, country, and on our planet. Instead of forever being blamed for the excesses that put our planet on the destructive path,…

— John Schaeffer

Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.

— Mikie Sherrill

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on…

— Stewart Udall

“In the new world we are entering, protecting the diversity of life on earth is no longer simply a matter of setting aside tracts…

— Lester R. Brown

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

— Natalie Portman

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth. As we learn how we fit…

— Sylvia Earle

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…

— Kofi Annan

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with…

— Homer