Preservation Quotes

A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

~ Virginia Woolf

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.

~ A.j. Darkholme

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

~ David Ben-Gurion

Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for myself. Sounds so simple, yet been so hard to put into effect until now, with my back up against the wall, Now I see what I must do ..it's a case of self preservation.

~ Virginia Toole

It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake of saving your pride or dodging another bullet.

~ Rachael Wade

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.

~ Habeeb Akande

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her...if any.

~ Toba Beta

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

~ Jane Goodall

Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

~ Bryant Mcgill

And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God.In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it.

~ Julian Of Norwich

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity's control.

~ J. Meredith Neil

. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins

~ John Daniel Thieme

Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things. We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.

~ William Powers

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological terms, recalls Neolithic beliefs that certain human remains possessed supernatural properties. It was believed that canonized saints did not rot, like lesser mortals, but that their corpses were miraculously preserved and emanated an odour of sanctity, a sweet, floral smell, for years after death. In forensic terms, such preservation is likely to be a result of natural mummification in hot, dry conditions.

~ Catharine Arnold

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is — or should be — the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all — perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction fol

~ Rachel Carson

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

~ Aldo Leopold

When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.

~ Bryant Mcgill

All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...

~ Will Advise

But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.

~ Michael Grunwald

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

~ Bacon

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives

~ Mark Twain

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

~ Herbert Spencer

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

~ John Locke