John F. Kennedy Quotes

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.

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

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.

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

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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 need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

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

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.

I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

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

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

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.

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

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

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

One generation plants the trees. Another gets the shade.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.