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Preservation Quotes

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.377

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.18

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.443

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

"Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.

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 (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.196, Cornell University Press