Scott Kelly Quotes

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

One of the most beautiful sights is when the rim of the Earth is bright on one side, and you see this defined line of the atmosphere. You see how close and thin it is. We've got to be careful. We've got to take care of this planet.

The environment, stabilizing the climate, needs urgent attention from all of us.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

I think it's important to be kind to the world before it disappears if we don't take care of it.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.

There are real and growing dangers to our simple and most precious possessions: the air we breathe, the water we bring, and the land which sustains us.... If we do not act, the world of the year 2000 will be much less able to sustain life than it is now.

What’s been going on for years is political science, not good science in the environmental area.

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.

I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment.

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.

We happen to believe that emissions going into the atmosphere are not good for us as humans or Mother Earth.

Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions spares our planet from the well-documented degradation that we are witnessing on a global basis.

The planet will get better; it's us that won't be here because we'll destroy the environment.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.

We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.

It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.