Noun
The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn wilderness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. Dian Fossey
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Thomas Carlyle
Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation. Benjamin Disraeli
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. Richard Dawkins
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. John Locke