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Quotes About Preservation

Why are we destroying the land instead of taking care of it? It takes care of us.
~ Terri Guillemets
Save the bees, the trees, and the Oxford comma.
~ Internet meme, c. 2012
Conserve Water, Drink Wine
~ R. S. Jackson
In this epoch of ours, many of us are watching with a distressed heart the evidence of a flight from freedom. Most people take liberty for granted, when they enjoy it, and do not realize that they have to relentlessly fight for preserving it.
~ Author unknown, c. 1964
All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.
~ Author Unknown
Don't blow it — good planets are hard to find.
~ Author Unknown
God bless America. Let's save some of it.
~ Edward Abbey
Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet.
~ Gardening Saying
I leave you two things, which, if you hold fast to them shall preserve you from all error: the Book of Allah, and my Sunna. Your downfall begins with your departure from these two.
~ Hajjah Amina Adil
this, too, is a way of reaching out for the divine peace in the universe, a peace that so preserves each thing that it never deviates from being itself . . . and continues to perform its own operation.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
the goal God sets for the world is now not simply dissolution in him alone but the fulfillment and preservation also of the created realm, "without confusion (?????????)", in the Incarnation of his Son.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.
~ Harold Holzer
the body was revealed to be lying wholly perfect in a liquor resembling mushroom catchup. Someone tasted the preservative and found that it tasted like 'catchup, and of the pickle of Spanish olives.
~ Harold Schechter
it was imperative to preserve history—be it noble or ignoble. Truth and learning, in Frazier's mind, swayed the future. Lying about or hiding any event was wrong. Man could only learn through his mistakes.
~ Heather Graham
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
~ Heather Wilson
planet when Americans and Europeans cleaned up their towns and cities in the postindustrial era. And they certainly won't become extinct simply because human beings choose to ignore their existence.
~ Laurie Garrett
Elephants operate on a steadfast principle that all other lifeforms must give way to them, and as far as they were concerned, foreign tourists at a sit down dinner around a swimming pool were no different than a troop of baboons at a swimming hole.
~ Lawrence Anthony
Our Constitution does not secure the peaceful transition of power, but rather presupposes it.
~ Lawrence Douglas
his species could end, a victim of people who valued themselves above other creatures of nature. We
~ Lea Wait
Embalming fluid is highly carcinogenic
~ Lee Gutkind
To develop a national park is to not have one.
~ Lee H. Whittlesey
Of course, collaring and tracking all bears is illogical, unreasonable, and unnatural from the point of view of park managers, regardless of one judge's opinion. It can traumatize the bears, make the bears look artificial instead of natural, cost a lot of money in radios and monitoring personnel, and give the public the perception that a national park is like the movie Westworld (all mechanical) rather than a natural preserve.
~ Lee H. Whittlesey
You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.
~ Leigh Brackett
There comes a time when you realize everything is a dream. And only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
~ James Salter