Gerald R. Ford Quotes

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.

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

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.

Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

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

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

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.

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

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