#preservation

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ↗

— Toba Beta

#law #life #preservation #preserve #rule

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

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

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

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

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

— Daniel Webster

#diffusion #education #free #institutions #our

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

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

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. ↗

— John Locke

#government #other #preservation #property

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#fine #fine thing #gold #like #mystery