All Paul Hawken Quotes
- The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive. Belongs
- 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 doesn't… Alive
- When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark… Aerial
- I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial. Fail
- We are the only species on this planet without full employment. Employment
- People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is… Age
- Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with… Art
- What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of… Beauty
- 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, and… Befall
- Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was… Check
- We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to storage of nuclear waste. In… All
- If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to… Believe
- We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can… Bail
- The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them Align
- This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air,… Air
- What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. Accountability
- A local company has more accountability. Accountability
- Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a… Act
- How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than… Both
- Business is correct to defend its right to act in order to produce a vigorous and engaging prosperity. But it is wrong if it forgets… Act