Quotes About Preservation

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

We are a broken nature, we are divorced from the laws of nature from the romantic philosophy of being, but we preserve the pragmatism of the Stone Age. This is what connects us to the natural world. Instincts are our cradle of nature. On a cognitive level, thought development is how human evolution develops.

The idea of Aryanism is not far from Hebrew laws, marrying only your own people, to preserve your own blood and original identity.

The health system was also skewed for profit. She presciently noted, "It is the direct interest of the physician that sickness shall prevail, since the people pay the doctors for treatment, not for health." If patients had a "contract by the year for treatment," it would be in the "direct interest of the physician to preserve them in the best possible health," as a healthy patient would be alive to continue paying the annual fee.

He chose to live by faith—not the kind of faith that believed God would miraculously show up and shield them from harm, but faith that God would preserve them through harm. Habakkuk shows us that living by faith means banking our hope on God no matter what happens in this life.

Once they are gone, they are gone forever. ---- Sheila Colla, referring to our endangered native bees, as noted on the blog Liber Ero (from the book The Humane Gardener)

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

For more than two thousand years, the only people recopying were nuns in convents. I don't think it's at all a stretch to suggest that they picked works to copy that supported their viewpoint and just let the rest molder into flakes of parchment. I mean, why would they re-copy works that said men used to be stronger and women weaker? That would be heresy, and they'd be damned for it.

In Yellowstone National Park there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can't eat money.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture.

The alarming history of European marble "cleaning" includes a chapter on this statuary describing a drive to make ancient Greek art white nearly destroyed the art itself. In the 1930s workers in the British Museum were directed to remove the dark patina with metal tools on the mistaken assumption that their proper color should be white. Such a "cleaning" seriously damaged the Parthenon marbles, prompting an inquiry by the museum's standing committee that halted the work.

Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.

Africa's rock art is the common heritage of all Africans, but it is more than that. It is the common heritage of humanity.

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

Regrettably these tapes still exist.

I've heard horror stories of Old Masters wrapped in newspapers and arriving with ghastly copes of the funnies imprinted on a stately old forehead.

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts languages in use.

Civilization is not an endless succession of inventions and discoveries, but the task of ensuring that certain things last.

Wie eine Tradition aufrecht erhalten? Indem man nicht von ihr spricht.

The age draws near in which nature, displaced by man, will not survive except in arboretums and museums.

This [waxed paper] is the paper that is perfect for keeping air-dried hams fresh. You could use cling film but it often causes the ham to sweat, and is rather wasteful. I have also reached the age where I can no longer find the end of the roll. Ditto sellotape. Ditto bloody everything.