Air Quote by Paul Hawken

Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the…

— Paul Hawken

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the…

— Paul Hawken

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…

— Paul Hawken

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

— Paul Hawken

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not…

— Paul Hawken

When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the…

— Paul Hawken

We are the only species on this planet without full employment.

— Paul Hawken

We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear…

— 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,…

— Paul Hawken

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If…

— Paul Hawken

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

— Paul Hawken

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

— Paul Hawken