Quotes About Preservation

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

The human mind is a swirl of activity mostly centered around self preservation and self justification.

Putting up food is, at its heart, an optimistic thing. It's a bold way to say: I will be sticking around.

la vida de un museo o una excavación arqueológica, como la de un archivo o una biblioteca, es un tesoro que la colectividad debe preservar con celo a toda costa.

The historical manifestations of the covenant of redemption can be categorized according to their specific emphases: Adam: the covenant of commencement Noah: the covenant of preservation Abraham: the covenant of promise Moses: the covenant of law David: the covenant of the kingdom Christ the covenant of consummation.

Prick the bubble of thought at any point," it was said, "and you shatter the whole of it. And since thought is one of the necessities of human life, it must be preserved."   Natural

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." ? Albert Camus

Ühel õhtul, kui tõime terrassilt sisse tühjad teetassid ja torditaldrikud, ütles Marta, et inimese kõige tähtsam ülesanne on päästa seda, mis on lagunemas, aga mitte uute asjade loomine.

If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendants, then perhaps the world would now look altogether otherwise. For what are we to do with such a brittle stuff as paper? What can come of writing books?

Je craignais de perdre ce que j'avais enfoui dans ma mémoire, tel un bibliothécaire qui refouterait un incendie.

Collecting antiquities is to archeology as rape is to love.

If the cat waits for long hours, silent beside the crack of the wainscot, it is for pure pleasure. Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

I love conservatism when it means the preservation of beautiful things, I love revolution when it means the destruction of vile ones.

it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.

I have spent most of my life outside, but for the last three years, I have been walking five miles a day, minimum, wherever I am, urban or rural, and can attest to the magnitude of the natural beauty that is left. Beauty worth seeing, worth singing, worth saving, whatever that word can mean now. There is beauty in a desert, even one that is expanding. There is beauty in the ocean, even one that is on the rise.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

Not every beast needs to be hunted down and killed; some are best left alone to live and die in their part of the forest.

Someone once told me that archaeologists are anthropologists who don't like live people. They dig up dead ones because dead ones can't talk back. That's not quite true. But I think live people are too fast for most archaeologists. We're a slow-moving lot.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined.

He had attempted to preserve the skin like a hide, placing it in a solution of water and salt for about a week. He concluded that he must have used too much salt, because the skin broke into pieces and he had to throw it out. "It was very disappointing.