Paul Hawken Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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 grace, justice, and beauty to this world.”

“Yes, population is a huge problem - birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we have to make sure that every child that comes here, that arrives, knows that he or she is welcome, is going to be cared for and honored.”

“Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.”

“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 not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.”

“Business is destroying the world, with flair, expertise, and panache.”

“In short, industrialism is over.”

“The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.”

“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 impossible only after you are done.”

“When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.”

“Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.”