Quotes About Preservation

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

This is a historically black community," said Lynn Hendy, president of the property owners association. "I'd like it to stay that way."127

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

The blood that ran so close to her fair skin might have been a preserving fluid rather than a ravaging element; yet her look of indestructible youthfulness made her seem neither hard nor dull, but only primitive and pure.

A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.

I do not like to see any thing destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty

Do keep these trees, keep all the wonderful scenery of this wonderful state unmarred by vandalism or the folly of man.

The libraries, which they have inherited from their fathers, are secluded, like dreary sepulchres, from the light of day.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Salt can cook food

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

To keep every cog and every wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

On land ethic: A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

What a thousand acres of Silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked.

it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece of wild country.

Toda protección de la vida salvaje está condenada al fracaso, porque para querer necesitamos ver y acariciar y cuando un número suficiente de gente haya visto y acariciado no quedará nada que querer.