His wiki article says “After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back”; there is no indication he actually ever said this. Glenn Scherer, writing for Grist, erroneously placed this remark in Watt’s testimony to Congress.[10]. Journalist Bill Moyers, relying on the Grist article, mistakenly attributed the comment to Watt. After it was discovered that the quote was mistaken, Grist corrected their article and Moyers promptly apologized [11].”

That he was hounded out of office for some wiscrack he actually did make is no surprise, in that his career was one long uphill fight for individual economic and property rights, against the great green collective.