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Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.


Frans Lanting

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KELLY JONES The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
DAN QUAYLE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the fut...
DENIS WAITLEY All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth beco...
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FRANS LANTING Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, t...
JILL LEPORE For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.
MARIANA FULGER In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...
PAULO COELHO The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn...
TONY CAMPOLO There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now
EUGENE O'NEILL My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That...
DONALD TRUMP The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Be...
EDWARD M. LERNER Live in the moment. Don’t carry baggage from the past. Put that baggage in a history book and lear...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
STEVE NASH What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in ...
KEN ROBINSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a myste...
KATE CHOPIN The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories
Never with our footsteps
MIMI NOVIC The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present...
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TONY CAMPOLO Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND The past, the present, the future: migration is what matters.
GUILLERMO ALONSO Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and...
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HOWARD PAINE Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
BUDDHA I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I wa...
TAYLOR SWIFT I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
GIANNI VERSACE Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to c...
ALICE HOFFMAN I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
WARREN CUCCURULLO I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.
AIDAN QUINN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
MURRAY WALKER Let's learn from the past and use it in the future rather than forget the past and look to the futur...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the di...
LAWRENCE G. LOVASIK We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.
KEN POIROT It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
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PETER ACKROYD You carry the past with you. Even if there's a before, and an after, in your life. It's still the sa...
JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-u...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can...
ANNE MICHAELS We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to fai...
JOHN PIPER Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo...
GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For our future, to have clean relations with our neighbors, we need to have a clear vision of our pa...
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'People predict ...
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...
JAMES THURBER He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future
QUEVEDO The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here,...
THOMAS S. MONSON Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well as ...
EPICURUS Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w...
THICH NHAT HANH I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
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DEYTH BANGER All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal...
BRIAN TRACY Don't grieve over the past,
It's all gone!
Don't worry about the future, It may never com...
MOULOUD BENZADI The past wrote about the future not acknowledging the past writing about the future. Will we ever le...
ANGELA DILLON Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
RICHARD ROEPER Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
CAROL BELLAMY Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
SOTONYE ANGA By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest...
STEVEN A. COULTER Don’t dwell in the past. You may miss the opportunity to enter the door of the future.
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RAQUEL CEPEDA I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a differe...
ARTHUR GOLDEN History...becomes present, if we can see the past with Augmented Reality
CLYDE DESOUZA Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.
MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is...
MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
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