Quotes About Preservation

We preserve the status quo, preserve existing systems.

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.

We simply won't be here if we don't take care of the very things that allow us to exist: our associates, customers, suppliers and the planet. That's not up for debate.

We've got to take care of the resources we have on this planet, because there's no resupply possible.

In Hawaii we understand why it is important to malama, or take care of, our land, ocean, and air - our way of life depends on it.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

I've taken for granted that we have clean air to breathe in cities, relatively speaking, and most people have access to clean water. But we can't take these things for granted.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

and one other who asked to remain anonymous out of his wish to preserve, as he put it, a viable political future.

Too often, small towns invaded by urban expatriates lose their character and physical beauty to overdevelopment.

Nature was still out there. There was less of it, to be sure, but it was there just the same.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the study of natural history--an intimate science predicated on the time-consuming collection and naming of life-forms--gave way to microbiology, theoretical and commercial. Much the same thing happened to the conservation movement, which shifted from local preservationists with soil on their shoes to environmental lawyers in Washington, D.C.

The eye being a tender part, and soonest hurt, how watchful is man by nature over that, that it take no hurt. So the heart, being a tender thing, let us preserve it by all watchfulness to keep blows from off it. It is a terrible thing to keep a wound of some great sin upon the conscience, for it makes a way for a new breach; because when the conscience once begins to be hardened with some great sin, then there is no stop, but we run on to commit sin with all greediness. 9.

Las instituciones tienden a intentar preservar el problema para el cual son la solución. CLAY SHIRKY

fish from the cache became "high"—in other words, smelly because they were partially rotten. Most people liked the strong taste. Jenness saw "a man take a bone from rotten caribou-meat cached more than a year before, crack it open and eat the marrow with evident relish although it swarmed with maggots.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.