Howard Carter Quotes

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

We have to maintain the Krishnasthali.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

We strongly feel we have to protect everything.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

Protection does not imply the destruction of the protected

What the word conservative means is not putting things back but conserving them. There are things that are threatened and you love them, so you want to keep them.

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son's materials.

Let's try to protect everything that's important to us.

I want the Dead Sea, like Masada, to be part of UNESCO's world heritage.

To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it.

Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.