Quotes About Preservation

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

One must leave an inheritance to their next generation in form of safer environment.

Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

Yes, President Romney will not take God off our coins. And that is so important because right now, just like God, the value of our currency really has to be taken on faith.

The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.

The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.

It is a mistake. I just want to protect it from being broken.

Daily I think about moving the most vulnerable objects to a "cool, dark place," but the truth is that I have little to no instinct for protection. Out of laziness, curiosity, or cruelty—if one can be cruel to objects—I have given them up to their diminishment.

Words pressed themselves into her memory, like a shoe sole into soft mud, which would dry and solidify, the shoe print preserved for

The passage, "And He rested on the seventh day" (Exod. xx. 11) is interpreted as follows: On the seventh Day the forces and laws were complete, which during the previous six days were in the state of being established for the preservation of the Universe. They were not to be increased or modified.