Quotes About Preservation
LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN QUE ES SUYO? ¡EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN!
~ Malcolm Lowry
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The problem with Western culture is that it is a show-off culture that intimidates. This is why it is generating so much death, loss and displacement. To perform ritual for show is to generate some kind of death or loss. Concealment of ritual is an act of life preservation because it is only in its concealment that needs are met that cannot be met in any other way. If
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
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although racists voted for Trump, the majority of Trump voters are not racist. They are people who feel threatened by their country's rapid economic, technological, ethnic and cultural change. This is why older white men supported Trump: they were trying to preserve their world, a world they saw disappearing day by day, where immigration was the most visible sign that their neighbours were no longer who they used to be.
~ Manuel Castells
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Partir n'est pas toujours un abandon, c'est aussi une façon de préserver ce qui a été vécu si l'on sait s'en aller avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.
~ Marc Levy
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A visitor in the seventh century could still see triumphal arches, baths, palaces, theatres, bridges, aqueducts and fountains,
~ Unknown
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but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself
~ John Milton
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fool
~ John Muir
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If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
~ John Muir
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keep the heart full of a sense of the love of God in Christ. This is the greatest preservative against the power of temptation in the world. Joseph
~ John Owen
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In truth, the Christian hope rests not ultimately upon our own diligence, but on God's faithfulness.30 It is God, not us, who will ultimately persevere, and that is why he is able to promise us eternal life: "where the promise is, there is all this assistance. The faithfulness of the Father, the grace of the Son, and the power of the Spirit, all are engaged in our preservation.
~ John Owen
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And so the indigenous languages of this place do belong to the people through whom they emerged. But they also carry within them an understanding of where we are and what is required of us all. Each time one of these languages disappears, even if you have never heard it, a great steel door closes forever on an understanding of this place. The
~ John Ralston Saul
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They got the Library of Alexandria. They're not getting mine. Bumper sticker (with quote flanked by silhouettes of pistol and rifle)
~ John Ringo
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A book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or beautifully helpful
~ John Ruskin
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A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate.
~ John Scalzi
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When things are hidden, there will always be people who object, and who will then go out of their way to preserve and store what is being hidden, so that someone can find it later, either intentionally or by simply stumbling over it. This is why I never tried to hide alternative takes of history. It makes them more attractive to future historians when you do. I smothered them under strata of official history instead." "Never hide, just overwhelm," Cardenia joked.
~ John Scalzi
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We in the United States have done so much to destroy our own resources, our timber, our land, our fishes, that we should be taken as a horrible example and our methods avoided by any government and people enlightened enough to envision a continuing economy. With our own resources we have been prodigal, and our country will not soon lose the scars of our grasping stupidity.
~ John Steinbeck
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That is the way it is done, the way it has always been done. Frogs have every right to expect it will always be done that way.
~ John Steinbeck
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I don't know what directed his steps toward the Salinas Valley. It was an unlikely place for a man from a green country to come to, but he came about thirty years before the turn of the century and brought with him his tiny Irish wife, a tight hard little woman humorless as a chicken. She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.
~ John Steinbeck
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The law was designed to save, not to destroy
~ John Steinbeck
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Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
~ Edith Hamilton
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I have suffered much; preserve my life, lord, according to your word.
~ Unknown
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The most important thing for us is to save lives.
~ Rick Perry
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La vera terra dei barbari non è quella che non ha mai conosciuto l'arte, ma quella che, disseminata di capolavori, non sa né apprezzarli né conservarli.
~ Marcel Proust
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