Chris Jordan Quotes

We are responsible for the history of the future.

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

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.

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

The only legacy I seek is the one that any grandparent seeks - that is, to hand off our nation... our fields and our farms to the next generation in better shape than we found it.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

We need to step up because our past generations did their jobs; we now need to do ours.

We cannot shirk responsibility from concerns for the welfare of the next generation.

Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

A new era of responsibility is here.

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

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

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.

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.

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.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

From a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave the country as good as he had found it.