Quotes About Preservation

I traveled to a library in South Africa called ILAM (International Library of African Music), which has a collection of about 500 different instruments that don't really exist anymore.

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

We can start looking for ways to preserve our heritage outside lazily defending a flag with history steeped in racism and treason.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Make your refrigerator or freezer like a treasure chest.

Lake Tahoe is a California treasure and we must do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we've seen the importance of having safe and accessible public lands as outdoor spaces in which to reflect and grow. We are all responsible for being stewards of these precious lands and keeping these natural treasures safe for generations to come.

I hope films will be somehow preserved and seen by as many people as possible in the future. There are endless treasures for audiences to discover, if only we can keep them from disappearing.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

You can't treat your voice badly and expect it to stay around.

Century-old records are the closest thing we have to a time machine. To listen to the voice of Theodore Roosevelt or the piano playing of Claude Debussy is to feel the years falling away like autumn leaves from a maple tree.

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.

I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it. I wanted to do something similar and wanted to give something back to the nature from which we have stolen so much. So my cousins and I bought 24 acres of land and we planted trees in that.

I will not tolerate killing of trees in the dead of the night.

I saved everything, all my gear over the years: my trench coats and stuff that I have saved. It is all packed away nicely and neatly in vacuum-sealed bags and all that stuff.

The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.

We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people.