#preservation

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 Rankin

#nature #oceans #pollution #preservation #nature

The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#law #living #love #nature #nourish

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#always #america #defending #difference #either

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

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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 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

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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

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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. ↗

— Walter Lang

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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety. ↗

— Walter Lang

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It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation. ↗

— Walter Lang

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