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Quotes About Preservation

And is it right butterfly? They like you better framed and dried.
~ Tori Amos
Dlaczego nie pozwolÄ… mi nigdy zachowa? moich wspomnieÅ" o wÄ™drówkach tylko dla siebie? Czy nie mogÄ… zrozumie?, ?e gadaniem niszczÄ… wszystko? JeÅ›li im opowiadam, to potem nic nie zostaje. PamiÄ™tam tylko swoje wÅ'asne opowiadanie, kiedy staram siÄ™ przypomnie? sobie, jak byÅ'o.
~ Tove Jansson
Here we see that a key purpose of education is a fundamentally conservative--or preservative--one. Education should preserve and transmit the past so that cultural memory is lengthened, and so that descendants will not be left to rediscover human truths already endured and expressed by eloquent forebears.
~ Unknown
Rule #1: Protect Your Scavenger.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. And we'll just continue to preserve a sense of artificial harmony.
~ Patrick Lencioni
passivates" the surface, that is, makes it less reactive to oxygen.
~ Unknown
Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally am content to see everything in the process of decay. The bigger the bombs, the quicker it will be done. The world is visually too hideous for one to make the attempt to preserve it. Let it go.
~ Paul Bowles
Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth's biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched.
~ Unknown
When reeling a fish in to not simply feel "the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue".
~ Unknown
Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you
~ Paul Simon
instead of tearing down the building, solidly made with a four-acre footprint, it was turned into a center for the arts—gallery upon gallery, with coffee shops and restaurants. Here and there iron clumps of machinery have been left on pedestals, looking like vorticist sculptures.
~ Paul Theroux
within walking distance of every historical sight, and it provided a garage where my car would not be stolen or vandalized.
~ Paul Theroux
He has learned that silence means the absolute balance of the body, spirit and soul. The man who preserves his unity will never be dominated by the storms of existence; he has the strength to overcome the difficulties and move forwards.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.
~ Peggy Orenstein
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.
~ Pierre Boulez
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
~ Dean Acheson
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
~ Xavier Becerra
I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.
~ Patti Smith
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
~ Alexander Eliot
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.
~ Unknown