Preservationists Conservationists Quotes & Sayings

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. — Robert Charles Wilson

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters. — Ray Bradbury

There is no organised encounter group. There is simply a freedom of expression - of feelings and thoughts - on any personally relevant issue. — Carl R. Rogers

You're guilty of making the same mistake most people make. You say 'I love you' but what you really mean is 'I want you.' You think it's the same thing, but it's not. You don't fall in love with someone just because they fuck you like there's no tomorrow." Alyssa purposely used his words, "I don't doubt that you wanted me, Sam. That you still do. Because on that really primitive, physical level, yeah, I still want you, too. But that's not love. That's about possessing, about being possessed. It's not real
it can't possibly last. Love is something you give. It's not about taking, or possessing. — Suzanne Brockmann

If we will only think, we shall begin to thank. — Charles Spurgeon

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something. — Helen Oyeyemi

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author. — William Wordsworth

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat. — Dennis Franz

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You deliver a message every time you speak. Do you deliver the truth, or do you deliver lies? When the message you deliver comes from truth and love, you are happier. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him. — Lev Grossman

For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists.... The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those who would leave it be.... The only sensible way forward lies in a melding of the two philosophies. If nature has grown artificial, then restoring wilderness requires human intervention. We must manage nature in order to leave it alone. — David Baron