Environmental-conservation Quote by Edward Abbey

“We lose names of things. Then the things they named.”

— Marianne Boruch

“gave their (right) names to things without seeing them;”

— Laozi

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with…

— Oscar Wilde

“People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.”

— Eliza Granville

“I prefer to use the names their parents gave them -- the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become…

— Louis Sachar

“If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”

— George R.R. Martin

“People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine”

— jamie delano

Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall…

— Jeremiah Burroughs

“Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a…

— George R.R. Martin

“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri