Quotes About Preservation

The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our lifetimes, they could repopulate a thriving world.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Freeze herbs by stem and all - don't just freeze the leaves. It's better to keep them sturdier. Put the stems and the leaves together into a plastic bag, and just wrap it up and freeze it like that.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Miss Parkinson lived alone in a big bay-windowed house of Edwardian brick with a vast garden of decaying fruit trees and untidy hedges of gigantic size. She was great at making elderberry wine and bottling fruit and preserves and lemon curd and drying flowers for winter. She felt, like Halibut, that things were not as they used to be. The synthetic curse of modern times lay thick on everything. There was everywhere a sad drift from Nature.

and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

I'm building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.