Quotes About Preservation

Flesh decays; bone endures. Flesh forgets and forgives ancient injuries; bone heals, but it always remembers: a childhood fall, a barroom brawl; the smash of a pistol butt to the temple, the quick sting of a blade between the ribs. The bones capture such moments, preserve a record of them, and reveal them to anyone with eyes trained to see the rich visual record, to hear the faint whispers rising from the dead. I

Even more remarkable—and a key reason Bob invited me to Hasanlu—was the object cradled in the arms of the front runner. The object was a bowl (or a vase, or a beaker): a metal vessel measuring about eight inches high, seven inches across the top, and six inches across the base. The falling walls had flattened the bowl, of course, along with the guy carrying it.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

This island of Earth of ours is finite in resources, including wilderness- particularly wilderness. The dwindling worldwide reservoir of wild lands must be the concern of everyone, but especially of those of us who have been privileged to experience wildness, and thus learn its value to the individual human soul and to the spirit of mankind.

Walter Murch, the sound editor and film director, said, "Music was the main poetic metaphor for that which could not be preserved

Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.

The time that has passed is ours to keep, and nothing is safer than that which was.

You never really "won" an environmental battle, after all, just saved places that would be fought over again in the future.

Environmentalism or conservation or preservation, or whatever it should be called, is not a fact, and never has been. It is a job.

il silenzio preserva la saggezza

God's creative activity in history is not only the preservation of what he has made; it is a continuous, creative engagement with his world, leading it forward to its future glory.15

For him, poetry was an inverted form of sympathetic magic: what it tries to preserve disappears, — David Jauss, from section 6 of "The Wandering Between Worlds," Black Warrior Review (vol. 23, no. 1, Fall/Winter 1996)

19th March, 1873.—Thanks to the Almighty Preserver of men for sparing me thus far on the journey of life. Can I hope for ultimate success? So many obstacles have arisen. Let not Satan prevail over me, Oh! my good Lord Jesus.

The heart, with the other parts removed, were placed in a tin box, which had formerly contained flour, and decently and reverently buried in a hole dug some four feet deep on the spot where they stood. Jacob was then asked to read the Burial Service, which he did in the presence of all. The body was left to be fully exposed to the sun. No other means were taken to preserve it, beyond

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.