Preservation Quotes

345 Preservation quotes by 279 unique authors

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history,… — Derrick Jensen
The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive. — Aldo Leopold
There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The… — Thomas Jefferson
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry… — Charlaine Harris
Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we… — Richard Louv
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All… — Wade Davis
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to… — Chogyam Trungpa
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until… — Winston Churchill
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation. — Georgette Heyer
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none… — Theodore Roosevelt
...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people… — Katherine Howe
Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard… — Megan Whalen Turner
It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and… — Kate Morton
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self… — Steven Pressfield
When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead… — Jennifer Egan
Do you have no sense of self-preservation? — Nalini Singh
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation,… — Steven Pressfield
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is… — Iris Murdoch
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've… — Nancy Werlin
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse

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