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Quotes About Preservation

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.
~ Charlie Rose
Treat the Earth as though we intend to stay here
~ Unknown
I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations.
~ Mehgan Heaney-Grier
So much of our future lies in preserving our past.
~ Unknown
FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.
~ Hazel Hawke
The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.
~ Patrick Dixon
I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.
~ Yulia Tymoshenko
It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.
~ Libba Bray
I liked protecting people and things. I liked figuring out smart ways to protect people and things. I liked being right.
~ Martha Wells
I wanted to put my fist through the nearest corporate logo. Idiotic humans don't understand how to be safe, idiotic humans thought every place was like stupid boring Preservation!
~ Martha Wells
Because they are all refugees in the Preservation Alliance, descended from people who were left to die because rescue was deemed not cost-effective. Because they stand on this station built from the ship that saved their grandparents' lives, that helped them for no other reason than because it was there and it could. Instead Ephraim asks her, "Can you separate that person from the purpose they were created for?
~ Martha Wells
I'd watched family dramas before, but I'd never spent much time around human families before coming to Preservation. (Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.)
~ Martha Wells
Plus, it was Preservation and there were no scanning drones, no armed human security, just some on-call human medics with bot assistants and "rangers" who mainly enforced environmental regulations and yelled at humans and augmented humans to get out of the way of the ground vehicles.
~ Martha Wells
Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.
~ Unknown
Of course', Churchill told Linlithgow, 'my ideal is narrow and limited. I want to see the British Empire preserved for a few more generations in its strength and splendour,' and he added, 'Only the most prodigious exertions of British genius will achieve this result.
~ Martin Gilbert
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
~ Martin H. Fischer
When it comes to looking after all the species that are already endangered, there's such a lot to do that sometimes it might all seem to be too much, especially when there are so many other important things to worry about. But if we stop trying, the chances are that pretty soon we'll end up with a world where there are no tigers or elephants, or sawfishes or whooping cranes, or albatrosses or ground iguanas. And I think that would be a shame, don't you?
~ Unknown
When exercising leadership, you risk getting marginalized, diverted, attacked, or seduced. Regardless of the form, however, the point is the same. When people resist adaptive work, their goal is to shut down those who exercise leadership in order to preserve what they have.
~ Unknown
We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
~ Martin Van Buren
Historic American Buildings Survey—HABS for short—was one of FDR's greatest New Deal investments. Jobless folk fanned out across the country, seeking old buildings, photographing them and sketching their floor plans. Many of the structures they recorded in the 1930s were caught in the act of falling down. Some of them were documented in no other place.
~ Unknown
Roman culture was marked by a reluctance ever entirely to discard its past practices, tending instead to preserve all kinds of 'fossils' – in religious rituals or politics, or whatever – even when their original significance had been lost.
~ Mary Beard
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
~ Voltaire
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
~ Baba Dioum
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
~ Baba Dioum