Nashville Preservation Society

Famous quotes containing the words preservation and/or society:

    “If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.”
    —Italo Calvino (1923–1985)