Preservation Quotes

345 Preservation quotes by 279 unique authors

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey
We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. — Ray Davies
Self-preservation is an important thing to me. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not… — Mo Udall
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable… — Woodrow Wilson
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is… — Abraham Lincoln
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. — O. S. Hawkins
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic… — Richard Dawkins
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause,… — Arthur Koestler
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty. — Jim Rohn
Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation. — Ani DiFranco
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. — Theodore Parker
People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are… — Daniel Dennett
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum… — Friedrich August von Hayek
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly… — John Thune
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States… — Theodore Roosevelt
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could… — John Muir
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in… — John Muir
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have… — Rachel Carson
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have… — Jawaharlal Nehru
There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind — Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a… — Theodore Roosevelt
I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation. — Rickson Gracie
The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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