You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet. — Paul Hawken Bail Copy Share Image
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand. — Paul Hawken Frames Copy Share Image
I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial. — Paul Hawken Fail Copy Share Image
At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. — Paul Hawken Calling Copy Share Image
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is. — Paul Hawken Addictive Copy Share Image
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. — Paul Hawken Cost Copy Share Image
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth… — Paul Hawken Bringing Copy Share Image
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices,… — Paul Hawken Charging 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 About Copy Share Image
What a great time to be born, what a great time to be alive, because this generation gets to completely change this… — Paul Hawken Alive Copy Share Image
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems,… — Paul Hawken Growth Copy Share Image
Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we… — Paul Hawken Caring 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,… — Paul Hawken Humanity Copy Share Image
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. — Paul Hawken Came Copy Share Image
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green… — Paul Hawken Aspirations 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 Accelerate Copy Share Image
Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the… — Paul Hawken Amends Copy Share Image
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural… — Paul Hawken Balance 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 Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and… — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else… — Paul Hawken About 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
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
“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
How much harm does a company have to do before we question its right to exist? — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
We are the only species on this planet without full employment. — Paul Hawken Employment Copy Share Image
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
We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. — Paul Hawken Brilliant Copy Share Image
