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“There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.”

May Has Beens Values Community Gone Building Saving Preservation Here And There Old Buildings

Author:Richard Moe

“Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?”

Should Lasts Young Parent Wonderful Violent Preservation

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your heartstrings if they extend across the barricade.”

Ifs Friendship Cutting Camps Preservation Barricades Opportunism Heartstrings

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.”

War Nations Blood Ought Shed Preservation Extremity

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.”

Men Together Law Cities Society Noble Preservation

Book:Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra

Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra

“If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.”

Ifs Different Self Whole Lying Sea Land Succeed Hundred Instinct Whole Life Miles Village Shore Capture Squares Preservation Cocky Self Preservation Gulls

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.”

Self Survival Instinct Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and internal suppression of the life urge of the only one - of its faith in human sacrifice as a means of salvation.”

Men Humans Mean Self Sacrifice Masters Concepts Salvation Slave Core Assumption Internals Urges Preservation Suppression Self Preservation

Author:Louis Sullivan

“Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something about it.”

People Lying Nature Principles Practice Greatness Environmental Preservation True Greatness Actually Doing Something

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.”

People Important Government Nations Rights Duty Mass Secure Conception Preservation Constitutional Government

Author:Elihu Root

“I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.”

Long Causes Historical Active Conservation Preservation Supportive

Book:Dance Band on the Titanic

Source: Dance Band on the Titanic

“A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.”

Feels Names Nature Poor Civilization Worthy Wilderness Preservation Not Worthy

Author:Edward Abbey

“We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.”

Politics Beer Preservation

Author:Ray Davies

“Self-preservation is an important thing to me.”

Important Self Important Things Preservation Self Preservation

Author: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 in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.”

Lasts Opportunity Given Term Nature Chance Generations Land Importance Strive Finals Wilderness Preservation Scope Frontiers Wildlife Alaska Our Generation

Author:Mo Udall

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