Quotes About Preservation

This is a landscape that should not be sold.

If our national parks are to remain viable in the future, they must become sites of transformation where the paradigm of domination and manipulation ends and a vision of unison begins

Again and again, we find this common story of the establishment of our national parks: a handful of people who fall in love with a place, see it threatened, want to protect it for the future, and have the passion and patience to attract the necessary funding and political clout to make it happen.

We form the future by being caretakers of our past.

Our National Parks] are more than scenery, they are portals and thresholds of wonder, an open door that swings back and forth from our past to our future.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart. I vow to eat, drink, and work in ways that preserve my health and well-being.

To preserve yourself is to preserve the opportunity to serve others.

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Fur ranchers choose the cheapest, not the kindest, kill methods, the main concern being the preservation of the whole coat. Many ranchers use anal electrocution, which fries the animal from the inside out, microwave style. At FurIsDead.com there is footage of animals undergoing anal electrocution, including an unsuccessful attempt repeated on the same animal. We also see a farmer who injects insecticide into the chests of minks, who die convulsing in agony over many minutes.

Earth is ours. I'm not letting them have it. I'm not letting them destroy it. Not on my watch.

Now her body was the only place where the memories were preserved.

It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. —Paul Valéry

I believe in books," her friend whispered. "We have to save them all.

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.

Common grace ... an imperfect solution ... does centre our attention on the gracious act of God in protecting man's corrupt and apostate nature from total demonization.

A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.

We can't all guard the life we love—or there soon would be no life left to love but being a guard.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

La libertad no es un derecho del hombre que concede el cielo, y la libertad de soñar tampoco se adquiere desde el nacimiento: es una capacidad que hay que preservar, una conciencia, sobre todo porque las pesadillas no paran de perturbarla.

Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet.

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