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Quotes About Preservation

Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species
~ Mary Balogh
Thus, flowers cannot be preserved, but their ethereal oil, their essence, with the same smell and the same virtues, can. The conduct that has had correct concepts for its guidance will, in the result, coincide with the reality intended.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
This knowledge of the preservative qualities of honey, at a time when the sugar-cane was unknown in the western world, is no doubt responsible for the fact that the entire body of Alexander the Great was preserved in honey, and viewed by lots and lots of people, some of whom no doubt exclaimed, "Isn't he sweet!
~ Avram Davidson
Resentment is a passion, implanted by nature for the preservation of the individual. Injury is the object which excites it. Injustice, wrong, injury excites the feeling of resentment, as naturally and necessarily as frost and ice excite the feeling of cold, as fire excites heat, and as both excite pain. A man may have the faculty of concealing his resentment, or suppressing it, but he must and ought to feel it. Nay he ought to indulge it, to cultivate it. It is a duty. —John Adams
~ Stacy Schiff
As his subject Samuel Adams chose: Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the republic cannot otherwise be preserved?
~ Stacy Schiff
Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.
~ Stephanie Hemphill
It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.
~ Stephen Colbert
No enterprise can become or rains truly great without a core set of principles to preserve to build upon
~ Stephen Covey
We must be careful, though, that we don't confuse the issue by contaminating the planet with life from Earth. Similarly, we must be very careful not to bring back any Martian life. We would have no resistance to it, and it might wipe out life on Earth.
~ Stephen Hawking
Environments without oxygen are excellent for the preservation of soft parts: no oxidation, no decay by aerobic bacteria. Such conditions are common on earth, particularly in stagnant basins. But the very conditions that promote preservation also decree that few organisms, if any, make their natural home in such places.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees.
~ Daniyal Umar
Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.
~ Clyde Butcher
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
~ Jonah Goldberg
The only thing that bottled orange juice has going for it, is its attractive colour.
~ Jonar Nader
Natural men's prudence and care to preserve their own lives, or the care of others to preserve them, don't secure 'em a moment. This, divine providence and universal experience does also bear testimony to.
~ Jonathan Edwards
God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen.
~ Jonathan Edwards
As government, and strong rods for the exercise of it, are necessary to preserve public societies from dreadful and fatal calamities arising from among themselves; so no less requisite are they to defend the community from foreign enemies. As they are like the pillars of a building, so they are also like the walls and bulwarks of a city: they are under God the main strength of a people in a time of war and the chief instruments of their preservation, safety and rest.
~ Jonathan Edwards
you don't usually help the bees by destroying the hive. Finally
~ Jonathan Haidt
Humanity comes first. Always. Politics and religion, valuable as they are, are always of second importance. If we do not work together to preserve life, to treasure it and keep it safe, then nothing we fight for is worth having.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto.
~ Jonathan Stroud
One magician I worked for once called for my aid during an earthquake which was toppling his tower. Unfortunately, the words he used were "Preserve me!" A cork, a great big bottle, a vat of pickling fluid, and - presto! - the job was done.
~ Jonathan Stroud
cosas se presentan en el horizonte amenazando traer otra época en que hay la necesidad de vivir reunidos para la mejor conservación de todos».60
~ Enrique Krauze