Quotes by Future If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future. Terry Tempest Williams futurenaturelove-you A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable Thabo Mbeki futureseaislands We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest Thabo Mbeki futurevisionsurvival For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty Thabo Mbeki futurepovertyvision We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air Thales futureoceanreality I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel. Theodore von Karman pessimisticfutureachieve Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. Thomas B. Macaulay acquisitionfutureage We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. Thomas Berry futureseainspirational Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred. Thomas Berry psychicsfuturenew-experiences As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process. Thomas Berry futureartistdream A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. Theodore Roosevelt futurecountrychildren Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... ...the future is roses! Roses! Thomas Dolby futuredreamheart We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. Thomas E. Dewey futurehandsneeds The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind. Thomas Hobbes futurememoriespast The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us. Thomas Watson, Jr. futurevisionbusiness Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future. Tim Wirth environmentalfutureenergy It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums Tim Yeo futurevisiontoday If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could. Tom Stoppard futurecleverwriting Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe Tony Blair futurevisionlong I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase. Tony Blair futurepeoplethinking«4142434445464748495051»
