Quotes About Preservation

Por otro lado, aquí se inicia el proceso de personificación del Estado que más tarde desarrollará Hobbes: el Estado representa los intereses del todo y, en aras de la preservación de los mismos, emite normas para regular las acciones externas entre los individuos que interactúan socialmente.

iPhones are not the Elgin Marbles, or Stonehenge, or anything else where part of the miracle is that it lasts.

over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.

I can say that if anyone has worked to save the mountains, they are women.

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

I wish there was a museum of sorts for legends like Ellis R Dungan and many others who disappear with the turn of page in the book of time.

Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like Los Angeles. Rivers and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.

The natural world is not indestructible.

To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.

We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.

The Ten Commandments can be seen as given in order to preserve the rights and freedoms gained by the exodus, by translating them into responsibilities.

Things that change and are lost, that is what's worth preserving.

Also, I am sure Aren was a way for him to protect himself

Try not to burn down Aroughs, would you? Cities are rather hard to replace.

A nation whose civilization is rooted in Christianity will therefore always be at pains to preserve Christianity as the basis of its civilization and to discourage foreign elements in its cultural life. So long as the Jews fail to appreciate this fact they will come up against difficulties.…

Our pictures are fleeting and elusive. In the far future, bits of hard drives may be fossilized in limestone, and discarded iPhones may find themselves encased in amber, hardened like nail polish, but the bits of humanity that these exquisitely crafted machines hold will be lost to time.

These reconnoissances were made under the supervision of Captain Robert E. Lee, assisted by Lieutenants P. G. T. Beauregard, Isaac I. Stevens, Z. B. Tower, G. W. Smith, George B. McClellan, and J. G. Foster, of the corps of engineers, all officers who attained rank and fame, on one side or the other, in the great conflict for the preservation of the unity of the nation.

The State government of Kentucky at that time was rebel in sentiment, but wanted to preserve an armed neutrality between the North and the South, and the governor really seemed to think the State had a perfect right to maintain a neutral position.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.