97 Quotes About Preservation

Nostalgic longing is always for an elsewhere. Remembrance is the affirmation of what brought us here.

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.

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

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.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

He turned to his own place then . . . and began to ask what might be the best use of it. How might a family live there without reducing it?

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.