Conserving Quotes - Page 3

• We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, War, Simplicity

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• Today it is not a matter of ‘conserving’ the present or returning to a recent past that has failed, but rather of regaining possession of our most archaic roots, which is to say those most suited to the victorious life.

  Guillaume Faye

  Past, Roots, Matter

  Guillaume Faye (2010). “Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-catastrophic Age”, p.14, Arktos

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• Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

  Robertson Davies

  Political, Politics, Conservatism

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Long, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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