Kofi Annan Quotes

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

We are the heirs of the ages; but the estate is entailed, as large estates frequently are, so that while we inherit the earth, the great round world which is God's footstool, we have only the use of it while we live and must pass it on to those come after us. We hold the property in trust and have no right to injure it or to lessen its value. To do so is dishonest, stealing from our heirs their inheritance.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

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.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.