Quotes About Preservation

It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it.

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

My father was the Florida state director of The Nature Conservancy.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

We've all got to come together, and we've got to protect what's left of our ancient forests on this planet.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

A fridge is basically just a big, cold box with a few shelves in it, right? Well, that's true, but where you store food in the fridge can have quite an impact on its shelf life.

These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.

God salts the earth with the faithful because those who cling to the Lord in faith through all circumstances preserve the rest from complete destruction.

Any suggestion that what is offered in that marketplace should at least be an idea rather than a raw appeal to passion is met with cries of Censorship! Those who cry the most loudly, however, are not always concerned to preserve freedom of discussion. More often, discussion is what they want to prevent, and they have discovered that reciting the ritual word censorship is an effective way to do it.

Serve God daily, love one another, preserve your victuals, beware of fire, and keepe good companie.

You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it, she said. And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.

Cuanta más vida hay en un sistema, mayor es la cantidad de nichos que existen para preservar esta vida

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.