#reservation

This is... an attempt to find some of the important fault lines in the narrative of "recorded history"--the points where people with access to the technology decided that *this* was how recordings should sound, and *this* is what it means to make a record. Ultimately, this is the story of what it means to make a recording of music--a *representation* of music--and declare it to be music itself. ↗

— Greg Milner

#preservation #recordings #music

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

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#basically #first #formula #great #had

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

Beauty should never lower its guard around Appetite. ↗

— Shay Caroline

#desire #self-preservation #beauty

I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation. ↗

— Strom Thurmond

#black #black americans #contributions #creation #development

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? ↗

— Jane Goodall

#environmentalism #nature #preservation #nature

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

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. ↗

— Alex Cox

#motorcycle #never #out #policeman #reservation

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