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. WilsonIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauThe 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 GatesBe 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 MeadWe begin to see therefore the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon HillDespite 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 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 WattsOur environment the world in which we live and work is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Earl NightingaleI 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 LawrenceInnovations that are guided by smallholder farmers adapted to local circumstances and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.
Bill GatesThere 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. BushIt 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 AllenIt is the whole environment that is created in the doctor-patient relationship in that it is not really permissive on either side ... Neither side is encouraging the other to talk about it.
James AllenMan must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Albert SchweitzerI 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 ReaganA very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. WilsonThe 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 BuffettWhy does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.
William ShatnerYou see it's never the environment, it's never the events of our lives but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Tony RobbinsTeddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI had in mind a message although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly persuading Americans and especially Southerners of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
E. O. WilsonBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. WilsonThe awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
Jacques Yves CousteauWe're a really young team that comes into this hostile environment playing against a championship contender. And we didn't play well. I mean at all. And we found ourselves in a position where we should've won this ballgame.
Kobe BryantWe generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame who's to credit but us? Who can change it anytime we wish but us?
Richard BachCherish 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 AllenPerhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. WilsonIf all mankind were to disappear the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. WilsonMy greatest environments in which I can grow or grow up is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
Alanis MorissetteI grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
Alanis MorissetteOrganic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning buildings qualified by light bred by native character to environment married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.
Deepak ChopraAll 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 AngelouThe real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves CousteauMind is the Master/power that molds and makes and Man is Mind and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought and shaping what he wills brings forth a thousand joys a thousand ills/He thinks in secret and it comes to pass, Environment is but his looking-glass.
James AllenIn 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