Scott Pruitt Quotes

The future will either be green or not at all.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

We cannot sustain long-term growth in our economies if we do not protect and preserve our environment.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.