#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 Leopold

#right #beauty

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#gifted #instinct #passes #rich #self-preservation

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#diffusion #education #free #institutions #our

We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries. ↗

— Zahi Hawass

#care #come #discoveries #foreigners #majority

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#fact #freedom #full #incompatible #individual

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

#began #between #carelessly #collected #dry

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#been #cases #congress #constitutional #despite

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space. ↗

— Clarence Stein

#beauty #depend #grouping #house #houses