Natural Resources Quotes

The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education.

~ Debasish Mridha

The wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The efficient management of organizations is key to generating wealth, for the development of a country, for the preservation of natural resources and the enhancement of the human being.

~ Vinicius Montgomery

Every man ought to plant a tree.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In families one can’t choose one’s siblings. Within regions one doesn’t choose one’s neighbors. And if you are one of the world’s leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you can’t really choose your customers. China and Zambia will just have to get along.

~ Howard W. French

James hoped the newsletter would garner support from Bahana, or white people, to stop a town well that the Bureau of Indian Affairs wanted to dig and a tower it wanted to erect to store the water. The Hotevilla elders were willing to lay down their lives in this battle. They’d done it before, preventing the BIA from bringing electricity to the village by lying down in front of bulldozers. If that well went in, James explained, people would waste water. Their spring would dry out- an unthinkable tragedy, as it would make it impossible for them to live there any longer. Could two cultures be any different? I now wondered. We were taking federal money to mine water and would do so until the unlikely day that same government made us stop. The Hopi had been trying to prevent the government from giving them a well in the first place.

~ Julene Bair