Quotes About Preservation

They had not become part of the crowd who watched the executions, but they did not have the power to protest them, either. The only way to leave the circle, to stop dancing with the jailer, is to find a way to preserve one's individuality, that unique quality which evades description but differentiates one human being from the other.

AT DINNER ONE NIGHT, Malia asked me what I was going to do about tigers. "What do you mean, sweetie?" "Well, you know they're my favorite animal, right?

But you don't ask questions of an attic. Museums are their own justification.

It came in three speeds: the jars with green lids were "mild," whereas pink meant "hot." The red-lidded jars were so-called "firecracker style." The latter was not a big hit with the kids.

For the only reason (I came to think) for God to inspire the Bible would be so that his people would have his actual words; but if he really wanted people to have his actual words, surely he would have miraculously preserved those words, just as he had miraculously inspired them in the first place. Given the circumstances that he didn't preserve the words, the conclusion seemed inescapable to me that he hadn't gone to the trouble of inspiring them.

If God wanted us to have his words, why didn't he preserve his words?

the battle in defense of natural resources.

Love and beauty could not be preserved by panic or flight.

Destruction was easier than preservation, and when destruction had risen high enough, mere men and women could not be condemned if they failed to throw back the tide.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. —Abraham Lincoln

New ideas need old buildings.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

Took up all the trees put them in a tree museum Charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them You don't know what you've got til it's gone. Took paradise and put up a parking lot.

Those are known as "oil-cured," "brine-cured," "water-cured," or "dry-salted" olives.

El mediocre no inventa nada, no crea, no empuja, no rompe, no engendra; pero, en cambio, custodia celosamente la armazón de automatismos, prejuicios y dogmas acumulados durante siglos, defendiendo ese capital común contra la asechanza de los inadaptables.

I fear for my books.

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.