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From Quotes by Paul Hawken
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying…
- If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
- My advice for people is to love the world they are in, in whatever way makes sense to them. It may be a devotional practice,…
- It is critical to realize that underlying the extermination of nature is the marginalization of human beings. If we are to save what is wild,…
- Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles…
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