Computer printouts taped to the gate, in Serbian and English, warned: "KFOR Stop or I will fire!" A Serbian government spokesman, Milivoje Mihajlovioc, told Reuters: "I am hoping Kosovo Serbs will preserve wisdom and avoid almost certain provocations.
A demonstrator at a barricade near the Jarinje border post told Reuters: "We want no violence, but we will defend what is ours". The news agency quoted a Serbian government spokesman as saying: "I am hoping Kosovo Serbs will preserve wisdom and avoid almost certain provocations.
These sages included Zoroaster and the Oracula Chaldaica (Chaldean Oracles), supposedly representing the primordial wisdom of the Persians and Babylonians; Hermes Trismegistus, who preserved the wisdom of the Egyptian priests; and Pythagoras, the semi-mythical Greek sage who supposedly passed along the wisdom of the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Persians to later Greek philosophy.
He thinks in terms of preserving the wisdom of the ages, of the chance to interact with the future Einsteins, Sapphos and Beethovens after their deaths.
Depending on the location, the students focused on learning traditional plant medicine and the spiritual ecology undergirding it; preserving the wisdom of indigenous healers and their knowledge of medicinal plants; making preparations ranging from salves to soaps; and preparing a new medicinal plants nature trail.
Preserving the wisdom accrued over centuries of practice can serve as the foundation for promoting crucial health and economic components, conserving biodiversity, and preserving the Badu culture and inheritance.
Perhaps in part because of the country's remote location, the Tibetans have become the guardians of a deep, well-preserved wisdom tradition that modern science is only now catching up to.
(Such practical wisdom traditionally preserved peace in Afghanistan's tribal society, and the country's current president, Hamid Karzai, appears to have embraced it by offering a seat in his cabinet to the Taliban).
(Fox, $34.99, R) AGORA The philosopher, scientist and mathematician Hypatia (Rachel Weisz) fights to preserve the ancient wisdom of Alexandria against the repressive forces of fifth-century Christianity.
The desire to preserve words of wisdom is best reflected in the sayings attributed to ʿAlī, the fourth caliph (died 661).
