We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world. — 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
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
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
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain… — 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
The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage… — Paul Hawken 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
Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at… — Paul Hawken 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 Copy Share Image
Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates… — 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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