The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.