Good preservation is a life preserver thrown to us in a shipwreck. Good preservation keeps us in touch with the graces of this life. It's bricks and mortar, yes. It's arguments about true colors and authenticity and representation. But true preservation is like the hand that shelters a fire from the wind. It protects the spark of life."
-- Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax, Twice
Tags: preservation
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo LeopoldTags: right preservation
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
Wendell BerryTags: world nature environmentalism preservation
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
Wendell BerryTags: conservation preservation
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.
Michael PollanTags: seeds nature nonconformity gardening diversity garden preservation
Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
Toba BetaTags: life truth war victory winning law survival rule competition win preservation preserve winner
Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.
William PowersTags: animals environment humans steel preservation silk spider kevlar
The very desire to preserve animals was a subjective sentiment of fail in the animal's intrinsic worth. It was a feeling possessed by most of the scientists there, who regarded the wildebeeste migration with the same awe that others feel for the Mona Lisa, but they would not admit this sentiment into their arguments because it could not be backed up by facts; the right and worng of aesthetics being imponderables not open to scientific analysis. At the end of the meeting there was a consensus of opinion on only one fact, that there was an urgent need for research before taking any hasty action.
Iain Douglas-HamiltonTags: scientists conservation preservation elephant intrinsic-worth
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
Albert CamusTags: truth preservation the-myth-of-sisyphus
You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.
Ian RankinTags: nature environment oceans preservation pollution
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