Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native… — 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
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
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
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
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
