Sonny Perdue Quotes

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

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

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.

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.

All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

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

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

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

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

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

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand

Conservation must become before recreation.

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

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the seas…. God said “Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn’t have to come at the expense of our economy’s bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn’t have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.