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“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“Live in the past, but don't remember too much.”

Past Remember Too Much

Book:Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

Source: Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life

“In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.”

Giving Trying Past Worry Too Much Anxiety Give Me Stressful Anxiety And Worry

Author:Cam Gigandet

“I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.”

Two Past Half Too Much Combination Warning Pollyanna Janus

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The present is burthened too much with the past.”

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!”

People Way Said Sometimes Seems Past Nations Too Much Ambition Sight Distance Response Disappointment Covered Our Future Our Past Stride

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.”

Past Walks Poor Too Much Mirrors Guides Contemplation Our Past Your Past

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.”

Thinking Persons Art Past Too Much Art Is Germany Conventions Conventional

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.”

Thinking Character Stories Age Past Names Interest Too Much Pages Forgotten Immortality Thrown Volume Idle Boast Anecdotes

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.”

People Littles Past Memories Too Much Grew Skins Died Heavy Flesh Sheer Misunderstood Accumulation Withered Experiences And Memories

Author:Dorothy Gilman

“We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.”

Thinking Needs Should Ideas Enough Helping Seems Government Past Courses Too Much Civilization Agree Debate Civilized Disagree Statesmen Good Faith Pettiness Agree To Disagree

Author:Daphne Guinness

“in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.”

Has Beens Seems Today Past Asks Goal Too Much Earning Earning A Living

Book:Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work

Source: Thriving In 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work

“What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.”

People Reason Past Poor Christianity Enemy Class Too Much Members Despair Negative Meat Poison Skepticism Frozen Lambs Beef Upper Class Scepticism Chilled Canterbury

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.”

Past Existence Too Much Appreciate Warm

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.”

Heart Persons Past Too Much Affair Heavy British Yesterday Crush Halls Museums Weary Tiresome British Museum Heavy Heart

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of