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
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. — Paul Hawken Cynic Copy Share Image
We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. — Paul Hawken Brilliant Copy Share Image
We are the only species on this planet without full employment. — Paul Hawken Employment Copy Share Image
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist? — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich — Paul Hawken Earth Copy Share Image
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy… — Paul Hawken Down and Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Along 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
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all. — Paul Hawken Behalf 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 Beings 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
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
For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support… — Paul Hawken Biological Copy Share Image
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to… — Paul Hawken Change Copy Share Image
If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of… — Paul Hawken Believe Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would… — Paul Hawken Astronomy Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Add Copy Share Image
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Assets 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 Billions 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
“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 Around the world Copy Share Image
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the… — Paul Hawken Appeals Copy Share Image
“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 Bad news Copy Share Image
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the… — Paul Hawken Answers Copy Share Image
First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible. — Paul Hawken Asks Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. — Paul Hawken Aberration Copy Share Image
Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. — Paul Hawken Accountability Copy Share Image
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