Quotes About Preservation

An important function of almost every system is to ensure its own perpetuation.

When it comes to age, it's all about the quality of the preservation,

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

Ali was horrified and enraged when in March of 2001 the Taliban dynamited the stone Buddhas that had stood watch over the town for centuries. What man had the right to write the future by blowing up the past?)

Then we don't deserve to be preserved,

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

I speak for the trees!

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

We have to prevent loss of life.

We are the curators of life on earth. We hold it in the palm of our hand.

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is maddeningly uneven, asymmetrical, & unfair.

Either hide this well or destroy it. It was the family motto.

Instead, I've got the Hewitt boys down on paper. So that 100 years from now some reader I don't know can see how dumb they were!

Wrote that last entry in a running scribble that looks like a foreign language backward. If anybody reads it in the future, they will surely need good, thick glasses.

A man with keen preservation

Notes pinned to babies left on church doorsteps by mothers who couldn't take care of them are preserved in the archives of the Society of Charity of New York, at the Foundling Hospital.

Civilization must be preserved,' says he. 'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.