#reservation

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#break #community #did #domestic #end

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#duty #few #health #morality #physical

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

#dreary #employed #famine #forming #minds

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance. ↗

— Clark Kerr

#anywhere #balance #british #confused #german

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#breathing #conscious #deep #divide #division

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#earth #environment #nature #preservation #survival

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#god #hope #inspirational #motivational #preservation

But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself. ↗

— Michael Grunwald

#ecology #ecosystems #everglades #preservation #nature

I have reservations about everything I do. ↗

— Larry David

#everything #i #i do #reservations

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#community #did #down #historic #i