“If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2010-, Ai Weiwei: ‘Shame on Me.’, 2011
“The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.”
2 June 1824
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“I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.”
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist
Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare Institute
Context: I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from which it came; it is to understand that the stream of life, flowing out of the dim past into the uncertain future, is in reality a unified force, though composed of an infinite number and variety of separate lives.
Zhang Zai (1020–1077) Chinese philosopher
Complete Works of Master Zhang, "Supplements to Reflections on Things at Hand", as quoted in Wang Chunyong's Famous Chinese Sayings Quoted by Wen Jiabao, trans. Chan Sin-wai (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2009), p. 10
“The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
The Husbandman's Life, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"All Pervading Consciousness"
Context: Yet what are seas and what is air? For all
Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth
To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth,
Did He not permeate them, were but names;
Know then, that both this visible world and that
Which unseen is, alike are God Himself,
Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.
“The pure memories given
To help our joy on earth, when earth is past,
Shall help our joy in heaven.”
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) American writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 407.
“Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.”
D.J. MacHale The Soldiers of Halla
Source: The Soldiers of Halla
Arthur C. Clarke book The Road to the Sea
The Road to the Sea, p. 265
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)