Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It… — 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… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water,… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich — 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
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them — Paul Hawken 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 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
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
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
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust… — Paul Hawken 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 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
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
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