Quotes About Preservation

People ask me, why bother cataloging earthworms? Well, why catalog anything? It's how we learn about the world we live in. Besides, some of these worms are going extinct. How do you know what you're losing if you don't know what you have?

You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything,

for photography does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

The problem is that one cannot easily build Charleston anymore, because it is against the law. Similarly, Boston's Beacon Hill, Nantucket, Santa Fe, Carmel—all of these well-known places, many of which have become tourist destinations, exist in direct violation of current zoning ordinances.

If these influences are reversed—and they can be—an environment designed around the true needs of individuals, conducive to the formation of community and preservation of the landscape, becomes possible.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Our Union: It must be preserved.

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

Each one of us is a custodian of India's well-being and of the legacy that we will pass on to coming generations.

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

As a lifelong sportsman, I am proud to work with our state and federal partners to make elk restoration in West Virginia a success story.

We want to preserve and aggressively grow our arts in West Virginia while at the same time making our education department, and government, more efficient and responsive.

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Historically, grizzlies ranged from Alaska to Mexico, with at least 50,000 bears living in the western half of the contiguous United States. With European colonization, the bears were shot, poisoned, and trapped to the brink of extinction.

Oh my god, I never want to hurt a bike. That's the last thing I want to do, precious little bikes.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.