The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them — Paul Hawken Environment Copy Share Image
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even… — Paul Hawken Change Copy Share Image
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore… — Paul Hawken Beauty Copy Share Image
When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are… — Paul Hawken Age Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When… — Paul Hawken Additives Copy Share Image
While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be… — Paul Hawken Activist Copy Share Image
It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save… — Paul Hawken Boundaries Copy Share Image
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 Alive Copy Share Image
And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better,… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work… — Paul Hawken Art Copy Share Image
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. — Paul Hawken Construction Copy Share Image
For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top… — Paul Hawken Climate Copy Share Image
When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change… — Paul Hawken Alive Copy Share Image
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which… — Paul Hawken Climate Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
