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
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. – John Muir
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments. – Ephraim Mirvis
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. – Jack L. Chalker
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
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine. – Zebulon Pike
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
