Margaret Mitchell Quotes

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

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

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

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed that he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

The land belongs to the future.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.

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 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.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.

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

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

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

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.

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

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth for the land is our mother… How can one man say it belongs only to him?

Public sentiment with us repudiates possession without use, and this sentiment is gradually acquiring the force of established public law It will come to pass that the confederated democracies of the Anglo-American race will give this great continent as an inheritance to man

Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.