I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George BurnsYou can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural and enjoyable.
Deepak ChopraI'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'RourkeIt's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. WilsonThe education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WilsonThe real threat to whales is whaling which has endangered many whale species.
Dave BarryApproximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald ReaganThe one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WilsonDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WilsonWater and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves CousteauClimate change is a terrible problem and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
Bill GatesIt's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.
Bill GatesWe are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen HawkingBe careful the environment you choose for it will shape you, be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement StoneComplete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
John DeweyPolitics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. ThompsonWe won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret MeadThe harder the circumstances the more trying the environment the stronger are those who come out of those circumstances.
Sai BabaDespite the lack of precedent a negative coupon security seemed possible in the present interest rate environment ... I asked Goldman Sachs to create such an instrument and they responded promptly with the innovative security being announced today.
Warren BuffettIn many environments take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. WilsonThe environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert EinsteinFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert EinsteinWe make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett MardenAnd although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan WattsI think we need the feminine qualities of leadership which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
Deepak ChopraThe business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert LawrenceThere is no fixed physical reality no single perception of the world just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
Deepak ChopraSalad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Doug CouplandGovernment does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
George W. BushThe golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance or the help of others, it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett MardenIt is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel AdamsWhen someone does a small task beautifully their whole environment is affected by it.
Jerry SeinfeldI know a lot of people think because we are a first-ring suburban town that we don't have a lot of the environmental issues you may find in a city but the reality is we do have a lot of the same issues that a city has. We both have older neighborhoods and districts that need some help.
James AllenI have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIf the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald ReaganThe most common cause of low prices is pessimism-some times pervasive some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
Warren BuffettCherish your visions, cherish your ideals, cherish the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts for out of them will grow delightful conditions all heavenly environment, of these if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built.
James AllenAll of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men values and dislikes are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces places and maybe races tactics intensities and goals but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
Maya AngelouIn the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Barack Obama