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Quotes About Preservation

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
~ Tobias Smollett
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
~ Henry Louis Gates
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
~ Denis Diderot
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.
~ Maimonides
Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
~ George Carlin
I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.
~ Ronald Reagan
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
~ Francis Bacon
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
~ Sheherazade Goldsmith
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
~ Carlo Petrini
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
~ Aldo Leopold
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
~ David Wojnarowicz
I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash
~ Brendan Fraser
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
~ Edmund Burke
Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.
~ Sara Sheridan
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
~ Henry Waxman
I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.
~ Assata Shakur
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
~ Ross Perot
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.
~ Zoe Helene
I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.
~ Jane Goodall
A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.
~ Socrates
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
~ Carl Schurz
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
~ Wallace Stegner
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln