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.

Self-preservation is the first responsibility.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

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.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

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.

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.

Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.

Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so dearly and was falling to pieces.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.