Quotes About Preservation

To describe the forests of the world as its 'lungs' does no harm, and it might do some good if it encourages people to preserve them. But the rhetoric of holistic harmony can degenerate into a kind of dotty, Prince Charles-style mysticism.

Behind every calculation, every decision, every signal, every turn of the helm, was the deeply held conviction that the disaster of defeat must always be greater than the rewards of victory. The belief that governed all the tactical moves at this one confused melee was that the individual Dreadnought, the squadron, the fleet must be preserved, even at the cost of victory over the foe.

Our stories are what we are. Our stories preserve us. We give them to one another. Our stories have value

Seven years of this and I'll have lost whatever edge I once had, I said. I'll have turned into one of those well-fed countrywomen who pride themselves on making better preserves then their neighbors, and give all their chickens names.

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy.

It's a protected historical building. They had to preserve the internal walls." It was the kind of obscure stuff Marcus was good at remembering, and it always came in handy.

The handful of swamps left in America were probably some of the few remaining places on the continent where a man could live wholly sustained by the land, whether it was for food, shelter, medicine, or some of the cleanest drinking water on earth. Jeffrey wondered how long it would be before they were all completely destroyed.

People say Americans like coming to England to see the old stuff 'cos they haven't got any old things in their own country, but they would if they stopped crushing it or blowing shit up.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.