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Quotes About Preservation

I don't think you need to go global rugby to save the Lions, but I think you need to go global rugby to save rugby and not lose things like the Lions.
~ Alun Wyn Jones
It's my duty to upkeep and safeguard my voice, my ability to sing.
~ K. J. Yesudas
Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.
~ Jerry Only
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
~ Jill Lepore
I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.
~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Those who have enjoyed the benefits of our system more than ever now owe a duty to protect the system that has created the greatest nation on this planet.
~ Kenneth C. Griffin
We owe it to ourselves to keep healthy this marvelous world we've been given.
~ Lisa Murkowski
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.
~ Harvey Mackay
Security and care of the objects is paramount. Arty composition comes after everything is safe from greasy fingers, humidity or excess light.
~ Grayson Perry
What people ought to do is find out what a national park is to begin with.
~ Michael Frome
Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
~ Donella Meadows
The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong.
~ Robert Redford
There are over 400 parks in all 50 states that represent our country and that are enriched with stories that tell about how our country became what it is today. There is a lot of history frozen in these places.
~ Jordan Fisher
To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.
~ Ron Paul
My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.
~ Pete McCloskey
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
~ Peter Matthiessen
There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.
~ Peter Matthiessen
TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
~ Peter Scott
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers
~ Peter Singer
Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.
~ Phil Borges
Legacies are hard to come by, after all. And if you have one going, you ought to do what you can to keep it alive.
~ Philip Gulley
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
~ Philip James Bailey
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.
~ Philip Larkin
In Wales, only about one in five inhabitants can speak Welsh (down from one in
~ Philip Norton