property/ownership/value

People popularly say that unless a person owns something they do not value and protect it. I think that is nonsense. I have never owned property or other beings yet I have given unstintingly of my love, energy and effort to conserve and improve other peoples property I have been privileged to live in / borrow, and I have loved and nurtured every being which ever came into my sphere of protection and care. To the best of my ability and the extent of my conscious awareness at the time. Now I have not the physical energy for most of the doingness which formerly directed my days, yet I still strive to be of benefit, ease and comfort. Or should I more truthfully say Consciously comforting the afflicted and afflicting the unconsciously comfortable