Quotes About Preservation

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do every day.

how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them. It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.

World War II destroyed more books and libraries than any event in human history.

Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory. It's like taking away the ability to remember your dreams. Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something wose than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage—the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read. I was struck by how precious and foolish and brave that belief is, and how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them.

I convinced myself that committing them to a page meant the memory was saved, somehow, from the corrosive effect of time.

The number of books destroyed or spoiled was equal to the entirety of fifteen typical branch libraries. It was the greatest loss to any public library in the history of the United States.

Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.

On Photography "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

The Games are still on. We have left the arena, but since Peeta and I weren't killed, his last wish to preserve my life still stands.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.

America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.

The science is clear: to solve the climate crisis, we must protect our natural spaces.

And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits.

I'm concerned that if we don't do more to protect our open spaces and reduce climate change, there will be devastating and lasting impacts on us and future generations.

Love protects and preserves in all times.

If she knew how beautiful love is, she would already put it in a box, seal, and preserve it.So she could smell it whenever she wants.

Love protects and preserves the soul, spirit and the body.