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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. -- Earl Nightingale
Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine. -- John Baldacci
We are losing our environment so rapidly. -- Stefanie Powers
Conservation of energy also protects our environment. -- Lamar S. Smith
We are such a product of our upbringing and environment. -- Lisa Ling
Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. -- John Baldacci
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. -- Carol Moseley Braun
We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. -- Wangari Maathai
We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations. -- Alma Adams
House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. -- Nancy Johnson
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. -- Michael Crichton
We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment. -- Herbie Hancock
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. -- Orison Swett Marden
I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment. -- Nestor Kirchner
The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to. -- Pope Francis
For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better. -- Christopher Dodd
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. -- Ronald Reagan
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. -- Ansel Adams
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. -- Helmut Jahn
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. -- Sheena Iyengar
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. -- Frank Murkowski
I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life. -- Candice Olson
The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways. -- Gloria Reuben
We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment. -- Norbert Wiener
We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. -- Emile Durkheim
Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment. -- Deepak Chopra
We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment. -- Bill Gates
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. -- David Foreman
When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible. -- Sheena Iyengar
We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc. -- Robert Rubin
The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day. -- Oren Lyons
...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership. -- Richard M. Nixon
We 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 Hill
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour -- Kofi Annan
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. -- Daisaku Ikeda
If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. -- Ellen DeGeneres
In the 24 hours since this time yesterday, over 200,000 acres of rainforest have been destroyed in our world. Fully 13 million tons of toxic chemicals have been released into our environment. Over 45,000 people have died from starvation, 38,000 of them children. And more than 130 plant and animal species have been driven to extinction by the actions of humans. And all this just since yesterday. -- Thom Hartmann
Help save our environment. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Our existence and our environment enclose entities of divinity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Our existence and our environment enclosed entities of divinity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Technology is that which separates us from our environment. -- Marshall McLuhan
The environment as we perceive it is our invention, -- Heinz von Foerster
Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment. -- Dalai Lama
There is an order to our environment, a broader order. -- Frank Gehry
We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment -- Jon Wynne-Tyson
I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment. -- Maggie Hassan
We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall. -- Lamar Odom
The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother. -- Dalai Lama
We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment. -- Eric Jensen
When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment. -- Myrtle Reed
Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. -- Roger Tory Peterson
I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful. -- Joe Jonas
Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment. -- Marshall McLuhan
Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior. -- Dennis Kucinich
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. -- Gale Norton
When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us. -- Carl Lentz
If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them. -- Lewis Gordon
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We assume that we're masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it. -- Tyrone Hayes
With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment. -- Robin McLeavy
We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit. -- Dalai Lama
The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment -- Wangari Maathai
While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs. -- Michael D. Higgins
We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children. -- Hanna Rosin
Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever. -- Arron Wood
Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something. -- Bindi Irwin
It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline. -- Barack Obama
If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right. -- Greg Reitman
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. -- Marshall McLuhan
We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children. -- Dennis Kucinich
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. -- Manuel Puig
I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on... -- Robert Lyn Nelson
Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true -- Marcel Wanders
We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith. -- Benjamin Carson
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. -- Minoru Yamasaki
work is elevated by our daily environment into something that is appropriately done everywhere and at every conceivable moment. -- Sally Helgesen
You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment. -- Massimo Vignelli
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. -- Dan Quayle
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. -- Dalai Lama
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live. -- Dalai Lama
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. -- Craig Venter
... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less. -- Samuel Florman
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer. -- Alison Gopnik
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We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife. -- Steve Irwin
We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline. -- Lewis Pugh
By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared. -- Deepak Chopra
The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right. -- Lewis Gordon
We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems. -- W. Richard Stevens
Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself. -- Phil Keoghan
We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake... -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior. -- Richard Thaler
Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves...After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do. -- Bill Hicks
A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work. -- Dave Genn
Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment. We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb. -- Jacques Mayol
The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. -- Henry W. Kendall
The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility. -- Nikki Reed
I don't know how you can live on the planet and not care about the environment. It's our globe, we share it. -- Stana Katic
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. -- Robert Casey
Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations. -- Yaya Toure
Our state of health or disease is really a reflection of the environment we all live in. And the environment we perceive. -- Darnell Houston
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment. -- Cesar Chavez
When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included. -- Randall L. Stephenson
I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live. -- Ruth Wilson
As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control. -- James Arthur
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. -- Sylvia Earle
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. -- Viola Davis
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities. -- Jim Clyburn
Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security. -- Sylvia Earle
It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president. -- Kathy Najimy
Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world. -- Rupert Murdoch
Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in. -- Kat Lahr
No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone. Our path is not linear, but dynamic. -- Satoru Iwata
We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing. -- Burton Silverman
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment -- David Attenborough

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