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Conservation

noun

An occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change. Synonym: preservation.

The preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources.

(physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations.

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"Conservation" Quotes from Famous Books

... opponents of the conservation of large landed estates the forest will always be the worst stumbling-block, for it will never be possible to establish an even apparently successful forestry on a small scale. Where agriculture is concerned, ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... millions, or to take it by force if Spain refused to sell. And all this for fear of abolition. This was paying rather dearly for our conservative element, it should seem, especially when it stood in need of such continual and costly conservation. But it continued to be plain to a majority of voters that democratic institutions absolutely demanded a safeguard against democracy, and that the only insurance was something that must be itself constantly insured at more and more ruinous rates. It continued to be plain also that slavery was ...

— The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V - Political Essays • James Russell Lowell

... States, maintained by their annual contributions, controlled by a governing board composed of the diplomatic representatives in Washington of the other twenty governments and the secretary of state of the United States, who is chairman ex officio, and devoted to the development and conservation of peace, friendship, and ...

— Latin America and the United States - Addresses by Elihu Root • Elihu Root

... physiological, botanical, astronomical, and historical facts are not in conflict with the religious beliefs based on Scripture. The same holds good with reference to the so-called laws of nature. These "laws" are but group-names for certain phenomena. Thus we speak of the law of gravity, of the conservation of energy, the Laws of Charles and Mariotte regarding gaseous bodies, zoological laws, physiological, and psychological laws. A book which merely records and classifies these laws and describes the phenomena underlying them, is a truly scientific book, yet the acceptance ...

— Evolution - An Investigation and a Critique • Theodore Graebner

... is one of the great lights of history, because his genius and influence were directed to the conservation of what was most precious in civilization among the cultivated ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume III • John Lord

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