Quotes About Preservation

She turns to me sharply. "To live _is_ to fight," she snaps. "To preserve life is to fight _everything_ that man stands for." She takes an angry huff of air. "And now her, too, with all the bombs. I fight them every time I bandage the blackened eye of a woman, every time I remove shrapnel from a bomb victim." Her voice has raised but she lowers it again. "That's my war," she says. "That's the war I'm fighting.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

Wilma Mankiller, chief of the Cherokee Nation, submitted the eighty-five-letter Cherokee alphabet, hoping that her language would still be spoken a hundred years from now.

We had to destroy the village in order to save it.

In the days of the early Christians, the Blessed Sacrament was preserved after Mass in order to bring Holy Communion to the sick or to those in prison for their faith. We hear stories, such as that of St. Tarcisius, of Christians risking their lives to carry the Blessed Sacrament to others. Records also show that in the late fourth century, in some dioceses, converts to the faith were invited to adore the Blessed Sacrament exposed for eight days after their baptism. Early

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal.

If I can get all hot under the collar about the purity of a hat, just think what I'm like when human heritage is threatened with extinction.

He was aggregating memory like a wall against extinction and the little boxes of slides were his bricks.

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.

So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

“Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be cut off from among the Levites.

they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the Kingís Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalomís Monument.