Scott Pruitt Quotes

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.

I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.

It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

... for the benefit of the wild beasts as well as the savage nations .... To make the wilderness blossom as the rose, to establish laws, to increase, multiply, and subdue the earth [see Genesis 1:28].

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed that he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.