Quotes About Preservation

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!

Man is modifying the world so fast and so drastically that most animals cannot adapt to the new conditions. In the Himalaya as elsewhere there is a great dying, one infinitely sadder than the Pleistocene extinctions, for man now has the knowledge and the need to save these remnants of his past."1

Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conceivably may not be interested in such architectural treasures, so we should preserve wilderness even though it is possible that future generations will care little for it.

Most of it has probably gone into erad by now, but they may have a few terminal typescript manuscripts.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

There is also the fact that premodern lobster was cooked dead and then preserved, usually packed in salt or crude hermetic containers.

New York City today still preserves qualities which existed in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam—and Old Amsterdam

hang me/like a dead rose/preserve me/and my petals won't fall/until you touch them/and i dissolve

No city, regardless of its charm and wonder, could outshine the shadows of THAT notoriety. No boulevards, no matter how flawless, could make straight a lineage THAT crooked. No city need ever be named Cain to ensure THAT name's preservation for posterity.

Matrimony and monogamy have forever been linked with property and inheritance, the nuclear family, in the West, having been decided upon through trial and error as the most effective unit for preservation of both. In

The Right has been hamstrung in resistance by adherence to law; for, to a conservative, what greater crime than adopting terror (the rejection of law) to preserve law? (Compare this from the Vietnam War: "We destroyed the village in order to save

Then he reached to an even higher shelf and brought down another plastic grocery bag, this one from Tesco, which is decidedly less upscale. "Now, a smell is going to hit you when I open this up, but don't worry," he said. "It's just the smoke they used to preserve the head." That's a phrase you don't hear too often, so it took a moment for it to sink in.

Half the people I know have dead animals in their freezers: reptiles, birds, mammals. Is that normal?

You climb the mountains or visit the wilderness but leave no trace of having been there.

Yes, wilderness for its own sake, without any need to justify it for human benefit.

A dream was a house your brain made without your permission, precisely to preserve memories and experiences and wayward impulses for all eternity, even the dead ones that only caused you pain, the ones from which you most wanted to be free.

if we lose the ruins nothing will be left

The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun.

I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.