97 Quotes About Preservation

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

No, it is better not to risk a second interview. I shall always look back on this talk with you as one of the finest things in my life. Really. I mean this. We can never repeat. It has done me real good, and there we had better leave it.""That's rather a sad view of life, surely.""Things so often get spoiled.""I know," flashed Helen. "But people don't.

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

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

A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.

Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

Food preservation became more than a jar of pickles; it became a direct link to our matriarchal history.

Al principio, es probable que fuera una pieza común para la mesa, pero ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que se convirtió en un tazón para té. Hubo personas que lo cuidaron y lo pasaron, algunas de ellas pueden haberlo llevado durante largas travesías con ellas. No puedo romperlo sólo porque me dices que lo haga.

What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.