Our Responsibility to Future Generations

 

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

For Future Generations

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Reverence

For Our Children
     

Protectors of Nature, Protectors of Future Generations

 

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

For Future Generations

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Reverence

For Our Children
     

The Planet We are Going to Leave to Our Children and Their Children

 

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

For Future Generations

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Reverence

For Our Children
     

Earth Day 2021 - Protectors of God's Creation

 

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

For Future Generations

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Reverence

For Our Children
     

Cherish Our Natural World

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

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

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

Reverence

For Future Generations

For Our Children

Your Legacy - Making a Difference
     

Earth Day 2020 - Protectors of God's Creation

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

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

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

For Future Generations

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Reverence

For Our Children
     

Earth Day 2019 - Let Us Be Protectors of Creation

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

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

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Further reading: For Future Generations

Our Grandchildren's Planet

Reverence

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

For Our Children
     

Just Give A Little More Than You Take, Each Day

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

It's not that hard to be a good person... 
Just give a little more than you take - each day.
Do a little something for someone less fortunate.
Do a little something for future generations yet unborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Your Life Purpose

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

A man's good name is his best monument
    

Earth Day 2017 - Let Us Be Protectors Of Our Planet

Let us be protectors of creation,
protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature,
protectors of one another, and of the environment.
- Pope Francis

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

To cherish what remains of the Earth
and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Further reading: For Future Generations

Our Grandchildren's Planet

Reverence

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

For Our Children
     

This World, Our Legacy

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

This land, this water, this air, this planet -
this is our legacy to our young.
- Paul Tsongas

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.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy

Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet

Your Legacy - Making a Difference

Reverence

For Our Children

Our Grandchildren

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Your Life Purpose

Your Legacy

A man's good name is his best monument

Children

Civic Responsibility

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. - Eleanor Roosevelt If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. - R. Buckminster Fuller The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. - Gaylord Nelson If you aren't yet a registered voter, please register to vote TODAY. And consider signing up to vote by mail, or participating in early balloting. Further reading: Responsibility to Future Generations Together as brothers How to Choose Your Life Purpose

What Is Life All About?

What is life all about? Consider these various perspectives...

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
there is only the meaning we each give to our life,
an individual meaning, an individual plot,
like an individual novel, a book for each person.
- Anais Nin

Further Reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

Planting Seeds

Meaning of Life Quotes

Quotes about Trees

Quotes about Life

Perspective Quotes

What is the Purpose of Life?

Helping Others

Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Let one of your commitments for this year be to help someone who will never be able to repay your service to them.

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable

The Brick - a story of brotherly love - Anonymous

The Dog Who Came to Dinner (an old parable retold)

The Good Samaritan

Quotes about Service

Quotes about Compassion

Quotes about Generosity

Show Your Gratitude

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey

Show your gratitude for life through your service - especially service to future generations.

Further reading: Pay It Forward - as an Expression of Universal Gratitude

Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Be of Service

Quotes about Service

Quotes about Purpose

Quotes about Values

Quotes about Morality

Right Path Quotes

A Better World

Let me to-day do something that shall take A little sadness from the world's vast store, ... Because of some good act to beast or man - "The world is better that I lived to-day." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

  To leave the world a bit better ... to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama 

 Plant trees for your great-grandchildren - for future generations. Create the legacy of a better world. Leave this world a better place than you found it. Literally planting trees for your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea, but far more important... use this symbolism - this imagery - to represent the kind of legacy you want to leave to future generations. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

 Further reading: Pay It Forward Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren 

  Grant That I May Radiate How to Share Your Thoughts With the World

To leave the world a bit better ... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Always do the best you can, and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can, rather than worrying about what you can't.

Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life

Later is Never

Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Courage Doesn't Always Roar by Mary Anne Radmacher

Relationship Quotes

Moving On Quotes

Encouraging Quotes

Amazing Quotes

The true meaning of life

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Plant trees for your great-grandchildren - for future generations. Create the legacy of a better world. Leave this world a better place than you found it. Literally planting trees for your great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea, but far more important... use this symbolism - this imagery - to represent the kind of legacy you want to leave to future generations.

A second meaning I find in today's wonderful quote, is the idea of being of service to groups of which you are not a member - for example, funding research for a disease to which your family carries no genetic disposition.

Further reading: Plant Trees For Your Grandchildren

Responsibility to Future Generations

How do You View the World?