“Stewardship view is whereby human beings conserve the environment by avoiding any form of deterioration” (Wilson, 1962) and this view started in the ancient times during the Greek-Roman era. Stewardship tradition by Passmore involves the belief that humans are entrusted with the responsibility to take care of the earth 's splendour and productivity (Attfield, 1983). According to Simmons (1989), this view of stewardship sees nature as a set of resources which should be used to meet the demands of humans. Plainly, this view emphasizes the fact that humans have a responsibility to take care of the entire environment and that their interaction with the environment should not jeopardize the environment in any case since humans are said to be stewards.
Socrates philosophers ' view on this matter emphasizes the tradition which says animals are created for the benefit of the humans and as a result the humans gain more advantages from animals compared to plants because animals
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The standard Christian view of stewardship is the belief that everything was created for humans, and that the role of the human is to be God 's stewards of the creation (Simmons, 1989; Sheng, 2008) this Christian view arose around middle age hence this view initiated in the Greek-Roman era in the time of philosophers like Socrates. The tradition of stewardship involves the fact that humans are entrusted with the responsibility to take care of the creation beauty and productivity. But land improvement appeared to be taken for granted in the middle ages, this may be caused by the fact that Judaeo-Christians does not give much attention towards the environment but rather gives more attention to the salvation of soul and as a result people become more concerned about their soul and tend to neglect environment since they believe that earth is not their real home (Attfield, 1983), and this still have influence even in nowadays as most of the Christians are more concerned about their souls than