Quotes About Preservation

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

In this great nation of saints and poets, public administrators and ingenious architects, has our national and local imagination shrunk so much that we cannot leave the last major free flowing river of peninsular India alone, for future generations to explore, enjoy and benefit from? Let the Aghanashini flow with Aviral, Nirmal Dhara.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

Time is running out if we want our next generations and the generations after that to continue living on this beautiful planet.

NASA should start thinking about this planet.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Under the guidance of the former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, I have been doing this green initiative. My aim is to plant 1 crore sapling in Tamil Nadu.

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.

I think most fans of movies that have withstood the test of time don't like for them to be tinkered with. I think that's a pretty general consensus. You like to remember what you started with.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

All great peoples are conservative.

The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don't have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.

Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

Somewhere down the line I'd like to create a foundation that brings awareness to environmental protection, sustainability, the effects of pollution, and all of those things related to protecting nature.

I made my first conservation series for National Geographic in 2000. Ever since I've been finding ways of making my own life as sustainable as it possibly can be.

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.