Paul Hawken

A local company has more accountability.

— Paul Hawken

Don't go to business school.

— Paul Hawken

You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring

— Paul Hawken

In short, industrialism is over.

— Paul Hawken

Being a good human being is good business.

— Paul Hawken

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

— Paul Hawken

Trees are being saved because of the Kindle.

— Paul Hawken

Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich

— Paul Hawken

First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible.

— Paul Hawken

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy…

— Paul Hawken

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

— Paul Hawken

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

— Paul Hawken

Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.

— Paul Hawken

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

— Paul Hawken

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

— Paul Hawken

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore…

— Paul Hawken

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are…

— Paul Hawken

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

— Paul Hawken

The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education,…

— Paul Hawken

The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be…

— Paul Hawken

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not…

— Paul Hawken

Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong…

— Paul Hawken

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even…

— Paul Hawken

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better,…

— Paul Hawken

The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process…

— Paul Hawken

It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save…

— Paul Hawken

My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be…

— Paul Hawken

The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single…

— Paul Hawken

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native…

— Paul Hawken

While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to…

— Paul Hawken

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When…

— Paul Hawken

“Let’s say I do bother, big time. I turn my life upside-down, start biking to work, plant a big garden, turn down…

— Paul Hawken

There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the…

— Paul Hawken

“I believe this movement will prevail. I don’t mean it will defeat, conquer, or create harm to someone else. Quite the opposite.…

— Paul Hawken

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the…

— Paul Hawken

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

— Paul Hawken

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

— Paul Hawken

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

— Paul Hawken

We are the only species on this planet without full employment.

— Paul Hawken

How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist?

— Paul Hawken