Quotes About Preservation

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

Yongsan Garrison is an important venue representing Korea's modern history which will be preserved.

There are so many ideas in my mind of old craftsmanship and food we have been enjoying for thousands of years. Some are on the verge of oblivion. I hope to preserve them through my small efforts.

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.

This had not changed in thousands of years, and it might very well stay just like this for another five or six years, until somebody wanted to build condos. Beautiful wild things were killing each other all around me, and there was something soothing about sitting here and feeling like I was a part of a process that went on practically forever. Maybe there really was something to this whole Nature business after all.

That was the ideal: to remain dutiful to a preservationist ethos while not depriving yourself of modern creature comforts.

The Parks Department continued to cut down trees, removing a sick elm to save the remaining twenty, then removing another to save the remaining nineteen, and so on and so on until only the half-tree remained in front of the Lisbons' old house. Nobody could bear to watch when they came for it (Tim Winer compared the tree to the last speaker of Manx)

Wein, alles, was sich gekühlt besser hält, wurde in diesen Katakomben gehandelt.

Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it.

And I am careful of my work, too.  Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it.  I take a great pride in my work; I take it down now and then and dust it.  No man keeps his work in a better state of preservation than I do.

Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one left who could speak her tribe's language, but the anthropologists didn't realize it and never bothered to learn it from her. When the old woman died, the language died with her.

Freezing kills the flavor.

When the language one identifies with is far away, one does everything possible to keep it alive.

Quando la lingua con cui ci si identifica è lontana, si fa di tutto per tenerla viva.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.

Resources don't last forever. They must either be USED, MANAGED or they will be WASTED.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.

Dance is a tough life (and a tougher way to make a living). Choreography is even more brutal because there is no way to carry our history forward. Our creations disappear the moment we finish performing them. It's tough to preserve a legacy, create a history for yourself and others. But I put all that aside and pursued my gut instinct anyway. I became my own rebellion. Going with your head makes it arbitrary. Going with your gut means you have no choice.

Never take drugs before Marmalade