Backwards Quote by Jill Stein

While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

— Barack Obama

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming…

— Terry Eagleton

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We…

— Gabrielle Zevin

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If…

— Paul Hawken

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the…

— Rachel Carson

We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen…

— Roy Spencer

We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t…

— James Lovelock

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We know that we are close to making history.

— Lionel Messi

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too…

— Stephen King