The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Resources for Environmental Stewardship
We gratefully share the following from the revised Church General Handbook (March 2026):
“38.8.6
Caring for the Earth
The earth is God’s creation (see Genesis 1:1). Church members are encouraged to care for the earth, be wise stewards over it, and preserve it for future generations (see Doctrine and Covenants 104:13–14). As members fulfill their sacred responsibility to care for the earth, they show their love for both its Creator and their neighbors.
The Church strives to improve its operational practices in relation to the use of natural resources. It also seeks to help communities address environmental challenges.”
Click here for the LDS Gospel Topics page on Environmental Stewardship. Scriptures, articles, talks by church leaders and more.
We rejoiced when listening to then Bishop Gerald Causse’s General Conference talk of October, 2022. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2022-10-3010-gerald-causse?lang=eng
We gratefully study and share the April 2018 statement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “In Honoring Creation, We Honor the Creator.”
A new database is available to search the scriptures and church leaders on topics related to the Creation and our care for it in the resource library of LDS Earth Stewardship.
LDS Earth Stewardship is creating monthly Family Home Evening lessons that are related to the scripture study handbook“Come, Follow Me”.
A marvelous compilation of LDS teachings on earth stewardship was made by Craig Galli, former member of Kensington Ward, Washington DC Stake. (We wish that Craig and Lark Galli might consider returning to Maryland.)
Below are some images with quotes from LDS leaders — many have been posted by LDS Earth Stewardship.
Photo: NASA
"But as an intelligent being, if I have a mind capable of reflection, I wish to contemplate the works of nature, and to know something of nature's God, and my destiny. I love to view the things around me; to gaze upon the sun, moon, and stars; to study the planetary system, and the world we inhabit . . . everything is beautifully harmonious, and perfectly adapted to the position it occupies in the world. Whether you look at birds, beasts, or the human system, you see something exquisitely beautiful and harmonious, and worthy of the contemplation of all intelligence." —John Taylor
"The earth is very good in and of itself, and has abided a celestial law, consequently we should not despise it, nor desire to leave it, but rather desire and strive to obey the same law that the earth abides." —Brigham Young
Photo by Merikay Smith
Photo: NASA
Photo: Smithsonian.org