Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the… — 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 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
First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible. — 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
The generations before you failed. They didn’t stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the… — Paul Hawken 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 in the… — Paul Hawken 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 thing that… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
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