Conservation is a term with a wide range of meanings, entailing the art or the knowledge of being able to preserve, conserve, and reserve an object, an idea, a place, a story or a meaning. However, being it widespread, accepted and acknowledged, doesn't make it limited to its albeit multiple meanings. In this paper, the authors try to deconstruct conservation as a maintaining process, considering its paradoxical and utopian aspects, deriving from human illusion or desires, from the perspective of quantum physics and considering the Buddhist concept of Anityata. In physics, the concept of conservation laws is well established both in classical and quantum formulations; whilst the quantum description of reality suggests that we only observe change, not statis. This contradiction, in some ways analogous to that introduced for Buddhism, is explored through a double authored paper.