Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that… — Paul Hawken Destructive 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… — Paul Hawken Age 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… — Paul Hawken Alive 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 Break 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… — Paul Hawken Activity 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… — Paul Hawken American Copy Share Image
We are the only species on this planet without full employment. — Paul Hawken Employment 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… — Paul Hawken Economics 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
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 Data 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 Poverty 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
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 Air 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 Behalf 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
At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. — Paul Hawken Calling 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 Business Copy Share Image
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education,… — Paul Hawken Aged 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
Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and… — Paul Hawken Around Copy Share Image
The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Add Copy Share Image
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed… — Paul Hawken Activists Copy Share Image
