Future Generations Quotes

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

“It's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.”

Mike Huckabee

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”

Native American Proverb

“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.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

Greek Proverb

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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

John James Audubon

“Conservation means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.”

Gifford Pinchot

“God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us as to us.”

John Ruskin

“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland

“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.”

Ansel Adams

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”

Sitting Bull

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Frederick Douglass

“Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men?”