Preservation Efforts Quotes

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

We have to maintain the Krishnasthali.

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

I am honored to receive the TED Prize, but it's not about me; it's about our field - and the thousands of men and women around the world, particularly in the Middle East, who are defending and protecting sites.

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

I went to the Heidelburg Castle, a 1200-year-old castle, looked around. It was pretty awesome, but you know, they've got a coffee shop in there, and they have some sections closed off. I wanted to see the part where they tortured people, but it was cool, though.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of idle machines and empty seats. When the crisis of the pandemic gets over and it is safe for all of us to go back to that experience we must, in hordes.

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.