Word: cherishing
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...ever-growing building industry must have lumber; conservationists cherish forests. Here also the outcome is a compromise-the Government allows selective lumbering in the national forests, the lumber companies replant trees. But in cases of truly virgin forest and the privately owned California redwood tracts, the savers and the cutters are at irreconcilable loggerheads. The Sierra Club and other conservationists insist, with reason, that there is no way to replant a 2,000-year-old redwood or a forest never before touched by human industry...
...humble, pink-cheeked, wispy-haired little man. It was language to the eye. Your portrait demonstrated that the mirror of the artist is his work. Faith, goodness and kindness, so needed everywhere, finds the mark in him; they all appear translated into his gift of art for everyone to cherish...
...Beerbohm is remembered chiefly for Zuleika Dobson, his comic novel of Oxford, and his graceful caricatures of the leading figures of his day. Sir Max was also one of the most delightful human beings who ever lived: tolerant, unassuming, a witty conversationalist, unfailingly kind. To know Max was to cherish him, and as a consequence, his friends and admirers have converted his niche into something of a shrine...
...they do the thought and action of a lifetime. But as judges we are neither Jew nor gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard...
...Flora, the matchseller reflects her desires and the need to love and cherish a man. Husband and bum reverse roles, and at play's end, Flora puts the matchseller's tray between Edward's nerveless fingers and grasps the old man's hand in hers...