We Do Not Inherit The Land From Our Ancestors, We Borrow It From Our Children - Native American Proverb

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American Proverb.

Do you own a home, some land, a farm, a forest?  Do you feel you have the right to do anything you want with that land?  Do you feel you have the right to burn it, poison it, pollute it, or do other things to make it worthless for decades or centuries to come?  Will you own that land forever?  Of course you will not. At best, you can only own it while you live, then you have no control over what happens to that land, even if you try to stipulate what happens to that land in your will.  Don't count on the living to respect the wishes of the dead when the wishes of the dead don't benefit or harm the living.

Since you won't own your land for ever, you are borrowing it.  You are the gardener and caretaker of the land.  The future is counting on you not to destroy it and not to take it away from future people.  Are you strong enough, mature enough, and human enough to leave the land better than you found it?