If we allow traditions to die, relationships to fade, the land will suffer.

We should learn and accept that we do not own the land, but hold it in trust for future generations

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

What is the point of looking after the Earth if we don't have children and grandchildren to pass it on to?

Leaders are stewards. They understand the proverb, "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

We humans must revere the earth, for it is our well-being. Always the earth grants us what we need. If we treat the earth with kindness, it will treat us kindly. If we give our belief to the earth, it will believe in us. There is no better blessing than to be believed in. There are those who believe that the earth is dead. They are deceived. The earth is alive, and it is possessed of spirit. Consider the holy tree. It can be allowed to thirst. It can be cut down. Worst of all, it can be denied our faith in it, our belief. But if we speak to it, if we pray, it will thrive.

As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us? (2015)

The time has come to love the creation of God more with our heart and soul. We have a responsibility to pass on a good earth to future generations. If we fail, they will blame us for ruining God's creation.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it...

Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.

I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations
of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end,

not a suspension: the senses wouldn’t protect me.
I caution you as I was never cautioned:

you will never let go, you will never be satiated.
You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger.

Your body will age, you will continue to need.
You will want the earth, then more of the earth–

Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond.
It is encompassing, it will not minister.

Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you,
it will not keep you alive.