Excellent Quote on Environment

'We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we merely borrow it from our children' -- a famous native American proverb.
An interesting quote u can use to BANG with whenever u are doing qns regarding the environment. What the quote is saying is that we do not own the earth, since we did not inherit it from our ancestors. It is only on loan to us before we eventually return it to our children. Hence, it does not give us the right to destroy the earth with our selfish tendencies. We owe it to our children to return to them a clean and pristine earth, not one that is ruined by our wanton desires.