Environmental Quote by Winona LaDuke

Our past is what makes us who we are

— Shameeza Yussuf

“We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted. Each of us contains within us this inheritance of soul. We are links…

— Edward Sellner

“We are all of our past, present and future lives, as well as the younger and older versions of ourselves. We are also every…

— Russell Anthony Gibbs

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today.…

— Amin Maalouf

“Everything we think we know, everything we think we see, everything we believe we feel, taste, smell, or hear, everything we “remember” (our pasts),…

— Dan Pearce

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

— Anonymous

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

— Iain Pears

“We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The future represents an…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware…

— Epeli Hau'ofa

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

— Ray Kurzweil

“We know very well that we have ancestors. But our ancestors are not only human. We have animal ancestors; we have plant ancestors; and…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

The past may dictate who we are, but we get to determine what we become.

— Stephen Spielberg