The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in 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 Copy Share Image
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world. — Paul Hawken Business 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
I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It's about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change… — Paul Hawken Alive Copy Share Image
Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live… — Paul Hawken Kids 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
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of… — Paul Hawken Appreciation 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 Copy Share Image
Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see… — 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
We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat… — Paul Hawken Corporations Copy Share Image
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical… — Paul Hawken Attitude Copy Share Image
“Today, 314,000 wind turbines supply nearly 4 percent of global electricity. And it will soon be much more. Ten million homes in… — Paul Hawken Climate Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years… — Paul Hawken Approach 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… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Yes, population is a huge problem - birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we… — Paul Hawken Birth Copy Share Image
It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. — 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 Poverty Copy Share Image
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. — Paul Hawken 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 Copy Share Image
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore… — Paul Hawken Beauty 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
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not… — Paul Hawken 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 responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be… — Paul Hawken Anxiety Copy Share Image
Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. — Paul Hawken Business Copy Share Image
If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even… — Paul Hawken Change 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
Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices,… — Paul Hawken 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 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
