Quotes About Preservation

The beauty of nature is not to be conquered, but to be cherished; for it is a fragile gift that sustains us all. Let us be mindful stewards of the Earth, let us be vigilant guardians of nature, let us be the conductors of environmental conservation and the architects of her restoration; for the preservation of nature is the preservation of our very essence.

When I first started, I was much weaker of a singer because I wasn't used to singing so much. Now I've learned, when I'm singing on stage, not to go over. You can go over and mess yourself up. I used to do it all the time, wouldn't know how to preserve it for the next show.

I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth.

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

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

We can see the weather change, that the birds don't come to the city anymore... we seriously have to think about preserving nature.

Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.

I'm so grateful for archives like Wayback Machine, who for 15 years have been creating snapshots of almost the entire web.

I am still attached to my wedding sari and preserve it with care. There are so many little things I have kept as loving mementos of my father and mother.

FoodSaver containers extend the life of my food so I can have fresh food ready all week long.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

I am committed to ensuring that, as Portland grows, the things we love about our city grow along with us.

I would love if film doesn't disappear, if we can have film forever so we would have all these brushes, all these possibilities available.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.