"The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it; the world and those who live in it. Psalm 24:1

"But ask the animals, and they will teach you; The birds of the air and they will teach you; Ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; And the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
Job 12:7-10

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18

If you remove the yoke from among you, The pointing of the finger,
The speaking of evil, If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water, whose waters never fail. Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; You shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.
Isaiah 58:9b-12

And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky." So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth. And God said let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:20-25

So God created humankind in his image, male and female he created them. God blessed them and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." God said "See I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw everything that he had made and indeed, it was very good. Genesis 1:26-31a

"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits. Keep far from a false charge and do not kill the innocent and those in the right, for I will not acquit the guilty. You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the officials and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. You shall not oppress the resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt." Exodus 23:6-9

"The land is mine for you are strangers and sojourners with me."
Leviticus 25:23

"If you follow my statutes and keep my commandments and observe them faithfully, I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall overtake the vintage and the vintage shall overtake the sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and live securely in your land. And I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid." Leviticus 26:3-6a

Now the people of the city said to Elisha, "The location of this city is good, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful." He said, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." So they brought it to him. Then he went to the spring of water and threw the salt into it, and said, "Thus says the Lord, I have made this water wholesome; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it." So the water has been wholesome from to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke.
2 Kings 2:19-22

Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to them - to the shepherds: Thus says the Lord God: Ah, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep. You have not strengthened the weak, you have not healed the sick, you have not bound up the injured, you have not brought back the strayed, you have not sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled them. Ezekiel 34:2-4

But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot out your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they shall soon come home. See now, I am for you; I will turn to you and you shall be tilled with sown; and I will multiply your population, the whole house of Israel; the towns shall be inhabited and the wasted places rebuilt; and I will multiply human beings and animals upon you. They shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 36:8-12

In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the law of the prophets. Matthew 7:12

Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves, but are not rich toward God." Luke 12:16-21

The body does not consist of one member, but of many. If the foot would say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. The eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need for you." If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. I Corinthians 12:14, ff.

We brought nothing into the world so that we can take nothing out of it; but if we have food for clothing, we will be content with these. But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. 1 Timothy 6:7-10

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adjorned for her husband. And I hear a loud voice from the throne saying,
"See, the home of God is among mortals.
He will dwell with them as their God;
They will be his peoples,
And God himself will be with them;
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more.
For the first things have passed away." Revelation 21:1-4

See also Psalms 8, 9, 24, 65, 96, 104, 145, 147, 148; Isaiah 55; Matthew: 25-34; Luke 6: 20-36

Biblical quotes from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.